An 18″ x 24″ page of pared-down bookhand written with a #3 Mitchell nib and walnut ink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nCalculating a 4 pen-widths x-height with a #3 nib … that comes to 6mm (4 x 1.5mm manufacturing spec). But my nib must have been customized as some point, because 4 pen-widths actually came to 5mm. So that’s what I used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’m teaching a calligraphy class this summer in Bozeman. The subject: bookhand. I didn’t want to teach the standard Johnstonian bookhand, which seems dated and, well, English. So I’m teaching a pared-down bookhand which uses the same proportions of Johnston’s foundational hand and Humanist bookhand,\u00a0but has no serifs to speak of. I’ve assigned homework, but … <\/p>\n
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