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Script Analysis – The L
David Harris in “The Art of Calligraphy” shows the drawing of a curved right serif on a vertical, which is part of what I need to do to build the serifs on the verticals in the Bedford Psalter script....
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Script Analysis – Building the Ascenders
This is my collection of difference ascenders and descenders from the Bedford Psalter : They differ a bit in exactly how the serif is finished, and there’s a fourth version of the ascender shown in the...
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Script Analysis – The different types of ascenders
Here are the 4 different types of ascenders. They are built by adding an extra line following the right hand side fishtail to the waistline, then placing the pen on top of that line and performing a...
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Script Analysis – Variations of Ascenders and Descenders
I had a look back at the original pages of the Bedford Psalter this morning (always a good idea) and noticed that a particular variation of the ascender was by far the most common – and it wasn’t the...
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