Calligraphy Letter Styles. The height of calligraphy was reached in the middle age where monks developed the narrow writing style called gothic allowing more words to fit on a single line as paper was expensive at the time. Brush celtic chinese copperplate cursive gothic lowercase medievil modern old english renaissance roman romantic runic stencil uncial uppercase and victorian calligraphy.
I first got into hand lettering two years ago and started with a basic faux calligraphy it s a great place to start. Modern calligraphy relies on certain principles of traditional calligraphy. Modern calligraphy is any calligraphy style that does not follow the fundamental rules of traditional calligraphy scripts such as copperplate spencerian italic blackletter etc.
But in order for us to develop our own unique calligraphy alphabet we first need to understand the different families and styles that are the staples and backbones of all letter alphabets.
See more ideas about lettering lettering fonts hand lettering. There are almost infinite ways to make a variation of the 23 letters of the alphabet some of them can be way more elaborate than others. Bookhand or foundational hand. See more ideas about lettering lettering fonts hand lettering.