Practicing neatness with blackletter. Focusing on getting all the letters properly aligned and the same height with good spacing.
Of the three lorem imsum sentences, the first is textualis/textura, the second is the more ornate fraktur, and the third is the curvier rotunda. Fraktur looks a bit messy this small, and I'm not as practiced with rotunda as I am textura.
Aside from the numbers, this is a pretty neat paragraph ^.^ #calligraphy
@welshpixie
How much incline do you use? I use a board between the edge of the table and my lap, and whatever range of angles that allows (1 angle, that's it).
I had fantasized buying a full A1, articulated drafting stand. There are some cheap, not so great versions available here. But, the size of my room means I would be permanently barricading myself in with it. :-\
@arefgee https://www.deckleedge.co.za/product/sinoart-drafting-table-glass-top/ I have this - when I'm using it inclined, I guess about 20-30 degrees :)
@welshpixie These are nice. I think they go for the lower 5 figures here.
I had something more barebones, like this 👇 in mind. Eventually, that is.
@arefgee Nice :D :D I think you can get ones that attach to the wall and fold out too.
@welshpixie Yeah probably. But, it's a rented house, with crumbling walls. I'd rather stay off the walls.
The board is working for now.
@welshpixie 1940s? I wonder what happened approximately in 1940.
@Riedler I didn't continue because I ran out of room, but "and for the German language until the 1940s, when Hitler's distaste for the supposedly "Jewish-influenced" script saw it officially discontinued in 1941."
@welshpixie wait, I thought he actively pushed Fraktur as the "true German script"?
@Riedler He never liked it - the nazi party as a whole were pushing it for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_dispute :)
@welshpixie
Do the capitals have a particular style, or is it something the author has freedom to play with?
@welshpixie
I don't know if 'author' is correct. Scribe, perhaps?
@mikshaw they do have a style according to the script yeah, but they can be played with within that style
Also I'm doing this with my desk properly inclined instead of flat and it helps loads with neatness 😁