Hi there!
Here i am again, after publishing my stencil font and my mono-spaced i’m thinking now on finishing my “Clarendon” and start a script and a italic font. The problem is like on everything: knowledge.
I’m searching for books easy to get and/or cheap so i can get some notions and learn how is a good letter on script and on italic.
Can anyone help me on this subject?
Check your local book stores. Calligraphy is always in style with some artsy/craftsy demographic or other, so you can usually find used books cheap. Or just check new book stores and art supply stores—even the in-print books don’t cost much new.
i’m checking online like abebooks.
My father has taken a calligraphy course for a secretary job but the problem is that he lost his books... Books were in bad shape.
I’m not much interested on artsy/craftsy as you said cause 99% of them are bad books. I don’t think that beautiful type. Of course, there are exceptions and thats why i’m asking around here.
If you know any of those exceptions and so... see what i mean?
Joel Santos // youremin
sound & visual
If you want to get that deep into italics, have a look at renaissance lettering specimens. I’ve posted a facsimile of Theatrum Artis Scribeni on my web site.
Not a how-to, but a great collection of examples of italic script manuals from the 1500s: Kathyrn Atkins’s Masters of the Italic Letter.
Dunno whether this counts as any good or not, but
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