{"id":2002,"date":"2016-11-11T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2016-11-11T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T22:00:31","slug":"it-is-not-hard-to-compose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/it-is-not-hard-to-compose\/","title":{"rendered":"It is not hard to compose &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/wp-image-1082183001jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/wp-image-1082183001jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2001 alignnone size-full\" width=\"1200\" height=\"810\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day 1 of this hand, these rules:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3\/8&#8243; x-height (= about 9.5mm)<\/li>\n<li>1\/4&#8243; ascenders and descenders<\/li>\n<li>1\/2&#8243; real capitals (=about 12.5mm)<\/li>\n<li>1.5mm Tape nib<\/li>\n<li>fairly flat pen angle, maybe 25\u00b0<\/li>\n<li>flatten pen angle at top and bottom of straight strokes<\/li>\n<li>some additional waisting via pressure<\/li>\n<li>smooth inner counter at joins<\/li>\n<li>consistent figure between bowls of a and e<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thoughts:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t flow well; it&#8217;s not yet in my kinetic knowledge. The sleeve of my jacket keeps impeding the smoothness of the long vertical strikes. The pen angle keeps creeping up. The s needs work (not unique to this hand!). I need to either tighten the word spacing or loosen the letter spacing. There is more. But this is enough to be going on with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 of this hand, these rules:&nbsp; 3\/8&#8243; x-height (= about 9.5mm) 1\/4&#8243; ascenders and descenders 1\/2&#8243; real capitals (=about 12.5mm) 1.5mm Tape nib fairly flat pen angle, maybe 25\u00b0 flatten pen angle at top and bottom of straight strokes some additional waisting via pressure smooth inner counter at joins consistent figure between bowls of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/it-is-not-hard-to-compose\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It is not hard to compose &#8230;&#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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-something-else"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-wi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","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=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}