{"id":1018,"date":"2015-02-08T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2015-02-07T15:12:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T22:12:31","slug":"exemplar-exercise-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/08\/exemplar-exercise-humility\/","title":{"rendered":"Exemplar as an exercise in humility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developing an exemplar is one of the most humbling exercises that a calligrapher can undertake. Having spent hours on this one, a number of thoughts tumble (my original typo &#8220;thumble&#8221; seems apt) through my head, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In most of my work I usually choose Roman capitals to go with italic minuscules, and it shows here. Which leads me to the specific note &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>G: pick an oval, won&#8217;t you? That G bears no resemblance to the C or O or Q.<\/li>\n<li>D: doesn&#8217;t have much base.<\/li>\n<li>U: there&#8217;s an awful lot of skinny in the connecting stroke.<\/li>\n<li>F: looks like it&#8217;s mid-jump on a pogo stick; that&#8217;s a paste-up error.<\/li>\n<li>M: has a heavy top left shoulder.<\/li>\n<li>W: has an awkward join on the right bottom corner; I&#8217;m usually better about that.<\/li>\n<li>Z: well, I don&#8217;t know what exactly, but the base is not straight and it looks wooden; perhaps I should have flattened the pen angle a bit more on the horizontals<\/li>\n<li>L: although I didn&#8217;t spend much time on kerning, the L is noticeably too close to the M. It&#8217;s all crowded but I wanted them as large as possible but still fitting on a letter-size page.<\/li>\n<li>J: also wooden, except where it&#8217;s wavy when it shouldn&#8217;t be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sigh. Well, I do like the P and R &#8230; That leaves only 24 letters that need work.<\/p>\n<p>I used a partially dried-out 5mm Zig marker so that students can see how the letters are being made.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-06-italic-plain-caps-exemplar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1019\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/08\/exemplar-exercise-humility\/2015-02-06-italic-plain-caps-exemplar\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-06-italic-plain-caps-exemplar.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,695\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2015-02-06 italic plain caps exemplar\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-06-italic-plain-caps-exemplar.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1019\" src=\"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-06-italic-plain-caps-exemplar.jpg\" alt=\"2015-02-06 italic plain caps exemplar\" width=\"900\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-06-italic-plain-caps-exemplar.jpg 900w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-06-italic-plain-caps-exemplar-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developing an exemplar is one of the most humbling exercises that a calligrapher can undertake. Having spent hours on this one, a number of thoughts tumble (my original typo &#8220;thumble&#8221; seems apt) through my head, in no particular order: In most of my work I usually choose Roman capitals to go with italic minuscules, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/08\/exemplar-exercise-humility\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exemplar as an exercise in humility&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,83,82,68],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lettering","tag-2015-daily-lettering","tag-capitals","tag-exemplar","tag-italic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-gq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}