Calligraphy Guideline

In English Calligraphy , guideline is really important thing for your calligraphy.
It helps to draw accurate gradient and angles.
Even proficient Calligraphers uses guideline because professional calligraphy is all about the line and angle.
So how to create this guideline?
Long time ago, you have to draw all the guidelines by hand. Still there are some people who draws it by their hand, but I recommend you to use this cool site!




http://www.allunderone.org/calligraphy2/calligraphy.php



This site will help you to create guideline easily.

• Calligraphy style

: This will be the title of your guideline.
  Can you see the Name in the yellow box? That will be your guideline title.

• Toggle "X" on/off

: When you turn on this one, X will show up the blank chichis x-height.
  It does not matter when you write one short sentences, but I recommend to use it whenever you are writing long sentence. You can check it on the preview screen.

• Vertical (Angled) lines

: Gradient line will show up when you turn on it. 

• Spacing between verticals

: Space between gradient lines. Usually, 4-5 is nice to start with.
  If it is too wide, it is hard to figure out the gradient and on the other hand, when it is too narrow, it looks so tight and messy.

• Angle of vertical lines

: Setting for angle of vertical lines. In general, Italic uses 5-7 and copperplate uses 52-55.

• Nib width (in millimeters)

: English calligraphy font sizes are depend on what size nib do you use. So write down your nib size.

• Ascender Height in Nib widths

: Setting for ascender line.

• Capital line in nib widths

: Create lines for capital letters.

• X-height in nib widths

: For example, 5x-height means that there are five 3mm width nib is filed up.
  Usually, Italic uses 4-6 size.

• Descender height in Nib widths

: Setting for descender line.

• Whitespace between sets of lines (nib widths)

: 1 set = Ascender + x-height + descender.
  Gap between 1 set and next 1 set.

After setting all of these click the 'Create PDF', and you are good to go!


Hope this guideline help you to reach your great calligraphy!
Enjoy!