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The cal­lig­ra­phy bug bit me today. It hap­pened when I saw the back of a greet­ing card — the name of the press was styled in some kind of chancery cur­sive, and it looked really good. Hand-​lettering would give a nice feel to my River­glen books (the title pages, that is). So I’m going to learn cal­lig­ra­phy. There’s a cal­lig­ra­phy class here on campus and hope­fully I’ll be able to get into it this next spring term, but even if I don’t, I still plan to teach myself.

Beyond that, even­tu­ally I’d like to start design­ing my own type­faces which I could use for print­ing books. But that’s a ways down the road. Font­Forge could do it, I sup­pose, but it’d be nice to have a native Mac font-​making app that isn’t $700 (ahem, can we say Font­lab?). I’m really tempted to write my own. But that’s a project that will have to wait, because I’ve got too many other things on my plate right now. Some­day, though… ~wist­ful sigh~

One last thing: for some typo­graph­i­cal cool­ness, check out Caligraft.com. Wow. :)

[tags]calligraphy, typog­ra­phy, fonts, Fontlab[/tags]