Calligraphy Style: Gothic

- Gothic

So this Gothic is one of the most popular forms of calligraphy. But not use very often, because it is not readable with your eyes and it is difficult to read in large quantities. All Gothic alphabets are made up of dramatic, dark letter forms full impact, contrast and detailed decoration. Gothic is therefore best suited to short and weighty texts without a long contexts such as proclamations, scrolls, certificates, brief quotations... and so on.

In fact that Gothic suits any kind of short official or medieval-looking document for which impressive appearance is more important than legibility.

Whenever you are writing Gothic alphabets, you need to some important skills to do:

• Keep pen angle at 45 degrees
• Draw straight vertical lines
• Draw short, straight diagonal lines - both thin and thick, in different directions
• Small, controlled movement of the nib
• Rhythm!

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BONUS!

You can practice with these sentence for your practice!

as baa-lamb sassy sisters lassos aardvark sesame

straight pajamas jealously abracadabra razzmatazz

sesquipedalian pandemonium assassinations exaggeratedly

circumnavigation antidisestablishmentarianism

floccinaucinihilipilification supercalifragilisticexpoaliodocious

 You might prefer to try our old favorite....

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

or

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Calligraphy Styles: Italic

So, there are a lots of beautiful Calligraphy styles that you can easily detect.



- Italic

Italic is a beautifully legible calligraphy alphabet, and has been taught for generations as the foundation of good cursive handwriting. This font is one of the most well known calligraphy font to public but it is not as simple as it looks like!
Nowadays, hand-written italic alphabets remain ever-popular for quotations, wedding invitations, art calligraphy and improving handwriting style.

As you can see, in this illustration, there are some what we can figure out italic calligraphy's trait.

• a distinctive 'lozenge' shape to the body of letters a, b, d, g etc
• elegant, narrow branching strokes forming the shoulders of letters such as b, h, m, n, p etc
• quite long ascenders and defenders
• usually a slight slant to the right, about 5 degrees
• a cursive, running quality and an upwards flick at the finish of many letters
• a contrast between heavier pressure on the downstrokes and much lighter pressure on the upstrokes
• some characteristic letter forms        ex) a and g are plain and open; ascenders often have a slight flourish

       



Also, you can deal with this two version of italic fonts.
Tilt little bit and you will discover a new kind of calligraphy!