Spring 2021 ︎︎︎ SUNY Purchase College ︎︎︎ (DES3440) Typographic Investigations
Blackletter
Calligraphy pt.3
The guides we’ll be using
This will be 11 nibwidths tall total. 5 for the baseThis angle
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e46df7e6c5931bfdd9537daa9abd3b6b492f20b73a3657893fa0ecfd5d24a0ee/Blackletter-Pilot-Parallet-Pen.jpg)
(these are different proportions but they letter x and z here is closer to what we’d recognize.)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b41b692c3f481868dfd964d49474c2d0bc2f74edc75dcd40400f5c549f29fcb2/2749aa926c0b6bc4b7a9757103dd0c2c.jpg)
This should be relatively obvious but there’s a good deal of variation you can have here and a great deal of decoration you can include which we’ll talk more about next class
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/047cd46cbdb7551f249e8e631ea27a5e9b6844d81ff7fb201cd40f55ff56fb3b/Parallel-Lettering-Pen-Exercise.jpg)
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