Anyone need something pen-and-ink to focus on? Join my calligraphy guild's next workshop!
Wonderful instructor Judy Detrick will be teaching us a Dutch Masters script. It's a lightly gothic/somewhat secretary hand with tons of potential for wild flourishing and creative adaptation.
It's Tuesday mornings (Pacific) starting *today*, BUT recordings are available for SIX MONTHS!!
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Although I have about 30 pretty fountain pens, lately I've been experiencing such joy in reaching for a bottle of ink and a simple dip pen with steel pointed nib. I have several nib holders with various nibs installed and it seems no matter which one i grab I'm enjoying the act of cursive writing. I write 1 page journal entries every few days, and i write notes and cards to people by hand now. Sometimes i use one of my fountain pens, but mostly these days i reach for a dip pen- it's so beautifully uncomplicated and immediate.
Periodically dipping the nib into the inkwell and giving a slight tap on the well or bottle lip to drop the excess off the nib before writing ten words or so... then another little dip and tap. The gentle scratching sound of the nib bouncing over loops, crosses, and dots forming words. The exquisitely fine hairline curls and luxurious thick ribbons possible with the flexible pin-sharp steel nib. The satisfaction in getting just the right amount of ink on the nib, how the ink coats the nib. There is something profoundly pleasant and comforting in this simplicity of this little ritual. It calms and soothes me....
@penfount #fountainpen #penandink #dippens #fountainpens #OldInkDay #handwriting #cursivewriting #calligraphy
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...I don't feel the need to buy more fancy pens or fancy inks at this point. I have good paper, I have over a dozen variously colored lovely bottles of ink. I have enough fun fountain pens. And i have enough different dip pen nibs to last a long while, along with 6 inexpensive but perfectly serviceable nib holders. What i have could last me for many years.
Have i reached my 'set point'? Have I lost the need for a new pen fix in hopes of finding my own 'grail pen'? Maybe so, but the better question is am I Happy with the writing supplies I have, and the answer to that is very much yes.
@penfount #fountainpen #penandink #dippens #fountainpens #OldInkDay #handwriting #cursivewriting #calligraphy
Gestern ist übrigens schon die erste Karte meiner #Osterpost am anderen Ende des Landes eingetrudelt. Habt ihr auch alle brav in den Briefkasten geschaut? 
Heute und morgen schreibe ich meine Osterpost. Vorfreude, die: Liste mit Adressen sortieren. Gezielt zahnschmerzsüß-niedliche Osterhäschenkarten für Personen aussuchen. Familie, Freunden und auch Fremden (ich hab da so eine Aktion laufen..) so einen kleinen Moment Freude und "Ich denke an dich" schenken können. Erwählten Füller mit derzeitiger Lieblingstinte auffüllen. Mich auf den Moment freuen, wenn ich mir diese Zeit und Ruhe nehmen kann, inmitten schönem Papier, Füllern, Tinte.
(Und ja, falls jemand Spoons für Post an mich hat - das wäre genial. 
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Concernant l'apprentissage de l'#écriture, je n'avais pas encore vu cette grosse initiative brésilienne et googueléenne avec des infos et des fontes pour 68 modèles d'écritures de 40 pays.
https://primarium.info
"#Primarium is a [...] educational project by TypeTogether which studied the methods of Latin script-based handwriting instruction for primary school children, spanning five continents and about one-quarter of the world.
In early 2022, independent type foundry #TypeTogether embarked on a [...] research project to explore the state of Latin script-based handwriting education in primary schools in over 40 countries [...]. The result of this [...] extensive project is Primarium, a freely accessible resource designed to serve the typographic and educational communities.
The study aims to collect and organise crucial information about #handwriting education in primary schools, including its role in #school curricula, the #handwritingmodels and resources used, and the teaching methods employed in classrooms. In an era where digital devices are increasingly prevalent, the issue of handwriting #education has become a topic of debate in educational, pedagogical, and typographical circles." #typography #lettering
Handwriting practice day again. The first line is always more stilted before I find my rhythm.
Shiny new notebook design: The Lilac Fairy, based on the 1844 published fairytale bundle book by Andrew Lang. Which you can read at the Gutenberg project and the Open Archive.
https://lydiavvinters.com/2025/04/10/grimoire-the-lilac-fairy/
**Schönschreibmeister – A Calligraphy Master’s Album from the 16th Century**
“The manuscript appears to be a compilation of calligraphic examples by one of the originators of early fraktur scripts, Johann Neudörffer the Elder (1497-1563), to whom this album is dedicated._”
https://flashbak.com/schonschreibmeister-a-calligraphy-masters-album-from-the-16th-century-461471/.
Apple Notes on iPad, writing with the pen, when it takes your handwriting and then re-inserts it every so slightly, but unnecessarily different. Definitely auto, but not refined. It can be switched off! In the tools palette, the … menu, look for the "Auto-refine Handwriting" switch. #iOS #handwriting #preference
I'd love to be an octopus wielding 8 pens in 8 intelligent, flexible appendages, it would make my edits and revisions a lot faster, and I could wield my funky feather - adorned dip pens with 8 different ink colours. Seems like a party to me. 
That absolutely gorgeous dip pen #handwriting
“When I draw comics and graphic stories, I need my #handwriting for dialogue, captions, and text. Traditionally, cartoonists would do all this #lettering by hand, but a lot of us just turn our handwriting into a #font.”
#Art / #automation / #Calligraphr <https://theverge.com/tech/634904/calligraphr-fonts-favorites>
I've been using the Surface Pen more lately (or trying to), and the thing I notice the most is how often it misses part or all of a stroke.
#Surface #handwriting #PenBasedComputing
#dailyhandwriting 23, Are you a cat person or a dog person?
I am a familiar person, and adore it when kindred spirits transcend species designation, regardless of fur, scales, or feathers.
So, I've written a little ode to familiars instead.
#dailyhandwriting 22, 10 green things.
Decided to go with minerals.
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