Calligraphic Space

making a #zine

One for the wish list, by Thomas Weil.

Author(s): Thomas Weil With contributions by Heinz Schütz, Manuel Will Design: Boah Kim 17 × 24 cm, 6 ¾ × 9 ½ in 336 pages, 386 illustrations paperback 2021, 978-3-03778-653-6, English

A treasure trove of fonts based on historic scripts and moveable type prints.

• 25 fonts based on manuscripts from the 2nd to 18th centuries
• 13 fonts based on printed works from 15th to 18th century, including ones based on different versions of the Gutenberg bible
• Plus 15 interpretations and 22 inventions _ #fonts

_ #printmaking #monoprint #letterpress #calligraphicspace

Hoe deze vorm naar het heden te brengen is de onderzoeksvraag. Het waarom is persoonlijk.

Ontroering voert de boventoon als ik afbeeldingen van verluchte manuscripten bekijk. En dan zijn dat nog maar reproducties.

Hoe figuratief een letter mag zijn. Hoe vrij de layout mag zijn.

Rillingen overal en een diepgevoelde overtuiging hier zelf ook mee aan het werk te moeten gaan.

• Roy Scholten, maart 2021, Hilversum

My series for 36 days of type is derived from the versal letters in https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.160.

I'm analysing the basic elements, patterns and compositions that make up the specific hand of this particular scribe. The plan is to do this for a few different manuscripts to better understand how these are constructed and build a library of ingredients and rules to eventually create my own variations.

I find the decorative line work that adorns these letters strangely touching. Sometimes elaborate and skillful, but just as often somewhat crude and basic. When progressing through a given codex, you can often see how the scribe's interest and enthousiasm tapers of. The initials in the first parts of the book tend to be more elaborate and smooth, with the linework getting more hasty and less complex further on.

What was it that made this specific approach the way these versal letters were decorated?

De verzameling van de verluchte initialen in mijn schetsboek is hier.

Een gedigitaliseerd boek uit 1897. Vooral de op architectuur geinspireerde kapitalen zijn fascinerend. Een heel directe koppeling van kalligrafie en ruimtelijkheid:

A, D, S.

Via @okyymstf

Drop caps

• https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/drop-caps/
• https://indiesunlimited.com/2019/08/19/drop-caps-and-quotation-marks-a-workaround/
• https://massive.mpcthemes.net/drop-caps/
• https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/drop-caps-historical-use-and-current-best-practices/
• https://markboulton.co.uk/journal/new-drop-caps/

Historically

• http://theworldsgreatestbook.com/book-design-part-6/
• – https://www.pagedmedia.org/drop-cap-a-smallest-history-of-the-drop-cap/

CSS illustration

• https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kgx7p/painting-made-with-code-html-pure-css-browser-art-diana-smith
• https://blog.prototypr.io/how-i-started-drawing-css-images-3fd878675c89
• https://css-art.com/
• https://a.singlediv.com/
• https://css-tricks.com/advice-for-complex-css-illustrations/

CSS animation

• rotating cube

Drop caps

• https://markboulton.co.uk/journal/new-drop-caps/
• https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/drop-caps-historical-use-and-current-best-practices/

CSS

• https://massive.mpcthemes.net/drop-caps/
• https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/drop-caps/
• https://css-tricks.com/advice-for-complex-css-illustrations/
• https://blog.prototypr.io/how-i-started-drawing-css-images-3fd878675c89

CSS Animation

History

• http://theworldsgreatestbook.com/book-design-part-6/
• https://www.pagedmedia.org/drop-cap-a-smallest-history-of-the-drop-cap/

CSS Illustration

• https://a.singlediv.com/
• https://css-art.com/

Drop caps in Word?

• https://indiesunlimited.com/2019/08/19/drop-caps-and-quotation-marks-a-workaround/