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I just got this note from a student: “I woke up thinking about evenly spacing letters at a 55 degree slant, haha!”
This is one of the biggest compliments I can get as a teacher. I have converted you into a true letter—one that dreams about letter spacing!
I will not obey in advance
I will not obey JD Vance
I will not obey or make nice
With sons-of-bitches who work for ICE
After our first successful crowdfunder to develop Cherokee fonts, we are now launching another crowdfunding campaign this time to publish a book on Armenian type. Help us publish a book through community effort.
Reviewing Joseph Champion’s New and Complete Alphabets (this copy at SFPL) for something unrelated. But this page leads me to believe that by the 18th century English Court Hand was already completely unreadable — even to those well versed in the lettering world at the time. Champiod didn’t label any of the other blackletter hands.
I was reminded recently that I had yet to share my IAMPETH Illumination & Borders proficiency certificate. There biggest issue was that I centered the border. So if you are working on yours now be sure to place it on the left as if there was going to be lettering on the page.
2/ ... consecutive dotless ı's looked a lot like the letter u. A Middle Dutch word such as 'dııc' could be mistaken for 'duc'.
That's why the second ı was lengthened to ȷ: 'dıȷc'.
It originally represented the long ee sound as in English 'freeze': [iː].
However, in the 14th century, ... 2/
Hello Fediverse!
I have set up a new, self-hosted shop for my bigger, more expensive illuminations.
It has a few of my most successful paintings now, and I will add more in the next few days.
You are welcome to take a look at the shop:
https://illuminiatures.fr/catalogue/
Boosts are most welcome to help me with that Big Launch. Thank you so much! 🥰
PS: The Ko-fi shop will remain active for smaller items such as bookmarks, Japanese paper dolls, cyanotypes, etc.
Ray*mond Li*terally
Art History Animalia
Typotheque
Yoïn van Spijk
Nancy's illuminiatures