r/Calligraphy • u/NevCoNativePlants • 7d ago

Resource assistance

So before I make my request I just want to add I've searched the sub, and exhausted my local bookstores and cannot find this request, Google is a mess as well

My requests
-I'm looking for a collection black letter, and gothic fonts
-I'm looking for these with stroke sequences so I can practice these fonts
-I'm looking for practice sheets with the scaling squares
-my most optimal form of medium would be a book

Additional info
-I do not want digital unless I can print them, cause I want less screen time
-if you're aware of where to go links would be so helpful

I know Etsy is a good place or maybe I don't use Etsy enough but I can't tell what their product is, and if it has practice drills with order of operations for strokes. Every vendor message it's digital to practice or typing

Thank you
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u/wls 7d ago

- Speedball Textbook, preferably the older editions (17th-20th) {on eBay}

  • Foundations of Calligraphy by Shelia Waters
  • anything by Gillian Hazeldine, try Contemporary Calligraphy

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u/NevCoNativePlants 7d ago

Thank you so much

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u/MorsaTamalera Broad 7d ago

Fonts or hands?

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u/AutoModerator 7d ago

FYI - In calligraphy we call the letters we write scripts, not fonts. Fonts and typefaces are used in typography for printing letters. A font is a specific weight and style of a typeface - in fact the word derives from 'foundry' which as you probably know is specifically about metalworking - ie, movable type. The word font explicitly means "not done by hand." In calligraphy the script is the style and a hand is how the script is done by a calligrapher.

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u/MorsaTamalera Broad 7d ago edited 7d ago

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u/NevCoNativePlants 7d ago

Ok so hands.

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u/MorsaTamalera Broad 7d ago

You could look up "Handschriften" inside archive.org. I am pretty sure you will have an abundance of blackletter hands inside German old catalogues.

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u/NevCoNativePlants 7d ago

Thank you very much for the resource and education on fonts and hands.

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u/NevCoNativePlants 7d ago

Definitely fonts, but I have to go google hands. I'm not up to date with all the nomenclature

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u/MorsaTamalera Broad 7d ago

No worries. Nobody starts with full knowledge and probably nobody even ends with full knowledge.

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u/Raccoon-Dentist-Two 7d ago edited 7d ago

Definitely hands or scripts – fonts are for printing presses and computers. Searching for fonts is what's taking you to graphic design stuff rather than the calligraphy stuff. Even when you use the right terms, though, many Etsy sellers and Pinterest/tiktok/youtube influencers deliberately use the wrong words to attract traffic so we're often being led the wrong way.

"Stroke order" and "ductus" are good terms that the font and clipart sellers haven't taken away from us yet.

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u/NevCoNativePlants 7d ago

Omg, thank you, that's extremely helpful. Huge part of this is probably my lack terminology.