Serifs are small strokes added to letters to ‘finish’ the letter. They can enhance the letters, but if produced badly will spoil the letter rather than ‘finishing it’. You need to be careful when adding serifs. If they are too big they can distract from the letterform and can even alter the final shape of…
Category: Roman Capitals
Roman Capitals – Letter and Word Spacing
Many calligraphers put all their effort in to producing correctly proportioned letterforms. Whilst the letters are very important, bad letter and word spacing will distract from the lettering. Can you imagine looking at a piece of work with beautiful lettering only to be distracted by poor spacing? Spacing can make or break a piece of…
Roman Capitals – Order and Directions
Once the proportions of the Roman Capitals have been studied, the next step is to start writing the letters.Each letter is constructed rather than written. The letters are made up from a combination of pen strokes.With this style of lettering, the pen strokes are only made in a top – down or left – right…
Roman Capitals – Proportions
Roman Capitals are usually the first style of calligraphy to be taught to the students of a new class. This is not always the case and there have been debates in the past to which is the best style to start with. Anyway, we are going to study Roman Capitals. We could just pick up…