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Neat Letters/Sloppy Letters
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Random type, neat or sloppy. Ideally more interesting than perfect
Stone-carved a spiral with translation contrast (or broad pen contrast). Love working with chisels but I feel like I sharpen them wrong (same with knives).
Stone ← → some sketches

bit wonky but I still love 🌻

#stonecarving #typedesign #lettering #design #art (?) #calligraphy #masonry
April 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Brush calligraphy with details corrected via black pen & white pen.

Made it as lettering for a book cover, but I didn’t like it in the end.

#typedesign #calligraphy #lettering
April 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Always a good idea fill in #type drawings with black. Outlines can be used to judge shape but volume is needed to judge balance.

This drawing won’t be balanced exactly because I refused to use white ink.. oh well

#typography #lettering #art #drafting #typedesign #font
January 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
exploring variations

#typography #lettering
January 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
New yearly ligature; 25
Works only for book figures, which is how all figures should be written anyway

might need some workshopping yet

#typography #lettering
January 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
A cute version of the 24 ligature (that unfortunately will be leaving common use next month)
Just a timestamp I put on some new genmaicha to mark the opening date.
December 5, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Spilled some olive oil on a note (written with my non-dominant hand)

The ink is one of my favourites; MB’s brown from the Around the World in 80 Days line.

#lettering #handwriting
November 27, 2024 at 3:15 PM
The traditional method of understanding capitals is to sell your soul to the devil. And then you still don’t get it.

Some relatively clean brush caps written with a 13mm flatbrush

(1/2)

#calligraphy #type #typography #art (?) #lettering
November 26, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Practice from a few years ago. 13mm flatbrush

#flatbrush #calligraphy #lettering #type
November 19, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Left: left hand, pentel sign pen
Right: right hand, pilot #parallelpen 1.5mm
“The Written Letter can be deeply Contextual”
“Providing #lettering #typography & #typedesign of Dubious Quality since earlier this week” (an much needed ad for my new excellent bluesky account)
November 16, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Yesterday’s quick letter sketches. Ballpoint pen on thin paper for the no-takesie-backsie factor.

#lettering #typography #typedesign
November 15, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Some sloppy rice writing from today — now the glyphs are cooking 🍚
#typography #lettering #type
November 12, 2024 at 5:51 PM