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Since
calligraphy is done by hand, calligraphers call the different
styles of lettering calligraphic hands. Type styles on the computer
are called fonts. Font is how most people today refer to styles
of alphabets. Whatever you wish to call them, I have many different
lettering styles that I do. Below are shown the most popular.
The capital letters set the style of the alphabet so check them
closely and you will see the difference in styles. |
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This
is a style called Bookhand. It is a simple Roman that is easy
to read. |
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This
is called Bastarde or sometimes Batarde. It is a variation of
the Gothic shown below. |
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The Gothic
hand is also called blackletter or Old English. It dates from
about 600 years ago and was most used in northern Europe. |
This
is a calligraphic hand called Palomares. It was named after a
calligrapher in the 1700's and in the 20th century was turned
into a type face. Now we have revived the calligraphic version. |
These
two examples above show Vivaldi. This was designed as a type
font in the 1970's and we developed the calligraphic hand from
that shortly after. |
The above
example is called Lydian. It had been a popular typeface in the
1950's, and now a modern calligraphic hand. |
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Below
are computer fonts.
Here
are some new fonts:
Above
are a few of the fonts on the computer that you may pick for
your text if you are having your text printed on your certificate.
In each case the name of the font is given first, then a sample
sentence so you can see how it looks as text. The fancier fonts
could be used for your names. We have many more fonts too. Send
an email and we will be glad
to send you other samples. Please note that the computer fonts
are usually not available for hand lettering although we do offer
Merced as a hand lettered style. |