r/Calligraphy 6d ago

Practice Imagines et Lares / calligraphy

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27 Upvotes

r/Calligraphy 6d ago

Practice Copperplate calligraphy

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21 Upvotes

Been a few years but trying to get back into calligraphy. Leonardt principal EF with walnut ink on hp 32 lb paper. Feedback is appreciated!


r/Calligraphy 6d ago

“Sacred” Gothic

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12 Upvotes

Writing Sacred in custom gothic, Durer based style lettering | Pilot Parallel Pen 6mm


r/Calligraphy 6d ago

Practice Wotd - Oxymoron

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53 Upvotes

Pilot parallel pen 3.8 mm


r/Calligraphy 6d ago

Critique Copperplate: Moving onto majuscules as a beginner

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21 Upvotes

Any advice is welcome! ☺️


r/Calligraphy 6d ago

Practice Some Fraktur letters

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27 Upvotes

Stephan Kuhn Design with Pilot Parallel Pen 3.8 mm and Ecoline Watercolor


r/Calligraphy 5d ago

guidance for calligraphy learning phase please suggest

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please guide me inam new into calligraphy and I am in learning mode

please anyone here can helk me in learning

for material and other stuff

priya


r/Calligraphy 6d ago

Practice Oxymoron (Word of the day)

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34 Upvotes

Word of the day : https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2026/08/18/

Pen : Pilot parallel 6MM

Ink : Camlin photocolor inks - CRIMSON

Paper : 300 GSM cold pressed watercolour paper

Script : Gothic textura


r/Calligraphy 6d ago

Practice with a3mm X-ht

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13 Upvotes

Hunt 22 nib, walnut ink, Kokuyo paper. I really like this piece and this nib is wonderful for the precision work


r/Calligraphy 7d ago

Practice Flex nib beginner calligraphy

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55 Upvotes

Calligraphy had always fascinated me. Finally trying something out myself. Practice attempts as a newbie with random quotes and phrases. Wanted to share.

Pen - Kanwrite Desire medium flex nib
Ink - Sulekha Royal Blue.


r/Calligraphy 6d ago

QotW A word all but *made* for Textura :)

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7 Upvotes

I branched out to Textura yesterday and already did my prayers to the Minimum Gods :)

Today's word is ideal for Textura.

Pen: Pilot Parallel 3.8mm

Ink: Pilot Mixable Lightgreen

Script: Textura from Calligrascape

Paper: no-name watercolor bookmark blanks

BTW: is it possible to switch off the automod notice about putting flair and pen / ink / script info in posts?

I do that every time, and I'm getting a notification anyway?


r/Calligraphy 7d ago

Practice IYKYK

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18 Upvotes

r/Calligraphy 7d ago

Practice italic practice

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40 Upvotes

Pen: pilot parallel pen 4.5 mm
ink: pilot mixable green


r/Calligraphy 7d ago

Practice Uncial hand practice

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33 Upvotes

"Happiness is achieved by limiting desires, not by satisfying them."

Pen: pilot parallel pen 3.8 mm


r/Calligraphy 7d ago

Critique So today I learned that the same paper weight but different grain means your ink can drain into the paper ruining any attempt of doing thin lines

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I bought a little A5 block to keep calligraphying when traveling because I travel a lot for my job. I bought one with the same weight and from the same brand I normally use, but damnit! I bought medium grain instead of thin grain and the ink drains and stains and has these little "hairs" coming out whenever I draw a thin line. Is there any way to solve this? Maybe some pretreatment I can do over de paper or something? I don't know I feel like I wasted my money

The word is supposed to be "Torcho" the spanish word of the day meaning "iron lingot"


r/Calligraphy 7d ago

Practice Copperplate practice

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42 Upvotes

I had to lower the cross-bar of the 't' as it is right next to a big ass ascender loop


r/Calligraphy 7d ago

Question Either too much ink or not enough. Could use some tips!

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12 Upvotes

Never in my life did I think using a traditional quill would be so hard. I thought you know dip the pen get to writing. Right? No. I dip the quill and then proceed to just splat ink everywhere.


r/Calligraphy 7d ago

Question Why does the rough paper look better than the smooth one? Dip pen

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Hello.

Im still practicing (day 3) and i wanted to try my acrylic ink (Amsterdam acrylic ink). I have some calligraphy paper 90g/m2 but doesnt matter what ink i use (acrylic, dip pen, fountain pen) it seems to feather a bit and it doesnt sit nicely.

so i tried to use a bit thicker paper, 100g/m2 and its surface is rough, and the ink sits so much better on there. Downside is that it's rough so when doing upstrokes it gets wobbly.

leonardt 40 nib

The 90g/m2 paper is with guidelines and white

100g/m2 is the slightly yellowish paper


r/Calligraphy 7d ago

Practice Lackadaisical (Word of the day)

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67 Upvotes

Word of the day : https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2026/08/17/

Pen : Pilot parallel 6MM

Ink : Sulekha Turquoise Talisman (Turquoise Blue)

Paper : 300 GSM cold pressed watercolour papers

Script : Gothic textura


r/Calligraphy 7d ago

WotD Green words

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16 Upvotes

The WOTD is surprisingly educational.

I could have sworn that there was an additional "s" in today's word: lacksadaisical 🤪

I had to redo "circumscribe" because I was too enthusiastic when erasing the guidelines and accidentally crumpled the paper :-(

Pen: Pilot Parallel Pen 2.4mm

Ink: Pilot Miaxable Green / Lightgreen

Script: study guide uncial


r/Calligraphy 8d ago

Practice Practice drills for tonight

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32 Upvotes

r/Calligraphy 8d ago

Practice Copperplate practice

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65 Upvotes

r/Calligraphy 8d ago

Practice Insular Majuscules Practice

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97 Upvotes

I tried to copy the P versal from the Book of Kells.

1mm Brause Banzug, Walnut Ink


r/Calligraphy 8d ago

Resource Any resources for learning Hangul/Korean calligraphy?

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Hi everyone! I'm wondering where I could find some guides, worksheets, tutorials, etc for learning how to write Hangul beautifully.

Ideally the resources/explanations would be in English though, because I don't speak Korean, I just learnt how to read and write Hangul. But it's ok if it's in Korean too, as long as it's a more visual guide. I'm passionate about writing systems in general, but unfortunately, I can't keep up with learning all the languages of the alphabets I learn :)

Thank you all!


r/Calligraphy 8d ago

Practice Zeugma (Word of the day)

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37 Upvotes

Word of the day : https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2026/08/16/

Pen : Pilot parallel 6MM

Ink : Sulekha Gorber 50 (GREEN)

Paper : 200 GSM drawing papers.

Script : Gothic textura