Font Wichita Bold. Wichita Bold is the perfect font for all your fun designs. The font family is Wichita Bold. And sub-family is Regular. Wichita Black Font. Wichita Black Free Download. All FONT. Any time. Past 3 months. Past month. Past week.. Is the difference between the thinnest and the thickest part of the letter. In many examples of alphabets in script style, the contrast is very evident. The opposite would be to create letters with a monoline pen or sketching them having the same thickness.
Is the room between letters. Spacing allows us to identify where one letter ends and the next one begins, but it also changes the perception of the work or letter when space variates. The variation on the slant or angle is what can give letters inclination and sometimes a seance of speed.
And while having different pieces with different slants can look beautiful, we should also avoid having more than one angle per line on a single piece. Adding different kinds of embellishments to letters, like flourishes, flowers, swashes, or curls and angles. Are the perfect way to make a unique set of letters to compose an alphabet. The possibilities are endless. We should look into historical alphabets to get a better understanding of how they have evolved and some details we could grab from them.
This list includes only some of the most important western calligraphy alphabets. If you are interested in the historical roots of Calligraphy, I wrote this post about the History of Calligraphy: Where does calligraphy come from. I also want to point out that all the alphabets below were drawn and written by me.
And, as many of you know, I am in no way an expert at those historical hands, but I used the book The Art of Calligraphy: A practical guide to the skills and techniques by David Harris. If you are interested in learning more about the most important historical events that lead to the evolution of many of the hands listed below, then you should get this book.
Did I mention that It also offers step by step instructions to learn and practice them? Capitalis Monumentalis Used in stone cut forms on great monuments of Ancient Rome. The oldest examples of Imperial letters date back to the first century BC. This was the most complex to draw of the first hands Because of the different strokes needed to create these letters with a brush.
Check out the video demonstration below of the roman D by calligraphy artist Tri Le tri. A post shared by Tri Le tri.
Used from the first to the fifth century. This was an elegant alternative to the Imperial Capitals, after the fifth century, it lost the favor as a manuscript hand even though it was continually used for tittles for centuries afterward. Capitalis Quadrata This late fourth-century Roman hand it's believed that originated as an attempt to interpret the Roman Imperial Capitals that were brush-drawn and moved to a pen-dawn form, but the thick downstroke and hairline horizontal point to the use of a horizontally help pen, in contrary of the 30 degrees necessary to produce the Imperial Capitals.
This makes historians believe that it might have been inspired by more contemporary wood carvings. The Insular had got its name from the Island of Britain and Ireland.
As a prestigious hand, Insular is characterized by letters that are written slowly and carefully with many lifts of the pen. This hand Carolingian Minuscule was developed in the eight-century as a reformed version of the Half Uncial. It survived until the Eleventh century before evolving into the Early Gothic and Rotunda. This hand was developed by Edward Johnson.
Historically it belongs in the early 20th century, however, the basis for the script is a manuscript dating from the year called the Ramsey Psalter. Believed to be produced by scribes at Winchester. Around the 13th century, the Early Gothic hand evolved into the Textura Quadrata hand. It was a revolution at the time since readability had always been an emphasis when writing.
And now most letters would blend in this visual texture. It was in Gothic were for the first time Capitals and Minuscules appeared together. As we now use Capitals to start a sentence. The Gothic hand is recognizable for exuberant flourishes complemented by hairlines inside the letter. As more formal a manuscript hand became, the need for a functional cursive script for everyday things arose.
This hand developed around the 12th Century as the evolution of the Caroline Minuscule, with shorter ascenders and descenders. Themes New fonts. Authors Top. Forum FAQ. Submit a font Try, buy and download classics like Helvetica, Univers, Frutiger, Trade Please note: If you want to create professional printout, you should consider a commercial font. Discover a huge collection of fonts and hand-reviewed graphic assets. All the Fonts you need and many other design elements, are available for a monthly subscription by subscribing to Envato Elements.
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