Spring 2023 ︎︎︎ SUNY Purchase College ︎︎︎ (DES3440) Typographic Investigations
Blackletter
(Calligraphy pt.3)
The guides we’ll be using
This will be 9 nibwidths tall total, 5 for the baseline to x-height then 2 for ascenders and descenders.![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bba9443618da8b04dce46a59c595666dccedd800ec163e429279bdb7c1280c32/CalligraphersBible_Page_089.png)
(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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