The calligraphy bug bit me today. It happened when I saw the back of a greeting card — the name of the press was styled in some kind of chancery cursive, and it looked really good. Hand-lettering would give a nice feel to my Riverglen books (the title pages, that is). So I’m going to learn calligraphy. There’s a calligraphy class here on campus and hopefully I’ll be able to get into it this next spring term, but even if I don’t, I still plan to teach myself.
Beyond that, eventually I’d like to start designing my own typefaces which I could use for printing books. But that’s a ways down the road. FontForge could do it, I suppose, but it’d be nice to have a native Mac font-making app that isn’t $700 (ahem, can we say Fontlab?). I’m really tempted to write my own. But that’s a project that will have to wait, because I’ve got too many other things on my plate right now. Someday, though… ~wistful sigh~
One last thing: for some typographical coolness, check out Caligraft.com. Wow. :)
[tags]calligraphy, typography, fonts, Fontlab[/tags]
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