Poem, Written In Light Italic

[caliken]

This example is the opposite of rapid, free, Italic handwriting, having been carefully planned and slowly written. After deciding on the general layout, letter style and size etc. the writing itself took me about one hour to execute. It was written with a Manuscript fountain pen fitted with a medium, edged nib. The x height is 10 nib widths which gives a very light, clean and airy look to the writing. I find this to be much more difficult to write than normal weighted Italic with the open aspect seeming to highlight every slight variation. Conventional Italic is more forgiving with deviation less obvious ...at least that's my experience. This is a reduction, the original size having been with minuscule height of 9mm. (10 nib widths).

 

 

 

 

This is the original size of writing.

 

Edited November 14, 2014 by Ken Fraser

[Tasmith]

Beautiful calligraphy as always. An inspiration for me to keep practicing and improving.

[Italicist]

I don't think that I've ever seen an italic script with an x-height of 10 nib-widths. That's really impressive, and most difficult. My hand starts to look like a mess whenever I creep above five nib-widths! Thanks for posting this.

[Randal6393]

Hmmm ... that's between two and three times my normal miniscule height. Lovely, Ken. Thanks,