{"id":641,"date":"2013-05-05T17:28:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T17:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2013-05-05T17:28:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T17:28:25","slug":"guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/05\/guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are all kinds of ways to make guidelines for calligraphy. Here are some of the ways I do it:<\/p>\n

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  1. A Word document. This downloadable Word document<\/a>\u00a0prints landscape on a letter-size sheet of paper\u00a0\u2212 x-height of 10 points (a little larger than 1\/8″) with a leading of 36 points (about 7\/8″) and 35\u00ba slant lines. The slant lines are in the header\/footer area.<\/li>\n
  2. An InDesign document, which provides more opportunity fine-tuned guidelines. Here is a downloadable PDF<\/a>\u00a0from an InDesign document which has many layers of guidelines\u00a0\u2212 slant lines and regular\u00a0\u2212 that I can turn on and off for a variety of combinations. I could have multiple columns, or a shape that breaks up the text, or other complications that don’t work so well in Word.<\/li>\n
  3. I like manually inked guidelines too, especially for large pieces. I use a lining guide, T-square and slantboard for these. John Neal provides instructions for using a lining guide\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you don’t want to make your own, you can generate some online at several websites:<\/p>\n