How Calligraphy Can Improve Your Typography

The last several years, the world has seen hand-lettering and calligraphy experience a resurgence in popular culture. This is a direct result of the Maker Movement, and a by-product of the desire for creatives to better understand typography, calligraphy, and the lettering arts as a whole. I present this article as to why calligraphy is an important area of study for artists considering type design or lettering work in their projects.

To be up front, let’s quickly establish the difference between lettering and calligraphy. Lettering is a sort of umbrella term that refers to the act of creating letters. It could be drawing letters, sewing them, painting them, building them, or even bending them out of neon. Calligraphy, by comparison refers to any of a number of styles of writing. (The word ‘calligraphy’ actually draws its origin from the Greek words ‘kallos” meaning ‘beautiful’ and ‘graphein’ meaning ‘writing’) Though there is some argument for where the clear delineation between calligraphy and lettering lies, suffice it to say that calligraphy is often written in single movements, where lettering is built up with many...

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