This document provides information about Roman Square Capitals lettering styles, including:
- Square Capitals from the 4th century have letters that are 3 nib widths tall and a pen angle of 5 degrees.
- Open Roman Capitals based on Gunnlauger Briem's style use a 30 degree pen angle and thin nib to create thick and thin lines.
- Two poems are presented: "If" by Rudyard Kipling and "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann from 1927.
This document provides information about Roman Square Capitals lettering styles, including:
- Square Capitals from the 4th century have letters that are 3 nib widths tall and a pen angle of 5 degrees.
- Open Roman Capitals based on Gunnlauger Briem's style use a 30 degree pen angle and thin nib to create thick and thin lines.
- Two poems are presented: "If" by Rudyard Kipling and "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann from 1927.
This document provides information about Roman Square Capitals lettering styles, including:
- Square Capitals from the 4th century have letters that are 3 nib widths tall and a pen angle of 5 degrees.
- Open Roman Capitals based on Gunnlauger Briem's style use a 30 degree pen angle and thin nib to create thick and thin lines.
- Two poems are presented: "If" by Rudyard Kipling and "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann from 1927.
This document provides information about Roman Square Capitals lettering styles, including:
- Square Capitals from the 4th century have letters that are 3 nib widths tall and a pen angle of 5 degrees.
- Open Roman Capitals based on Gunnlauger Briem's style use a 30 degree pen angle and thin nib to create thick and thin lines.
- Two poems are presented: "If" by Rudyard Kipling and "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann from 1927.
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Lesson 5: Roman Square Capitals
Weight
Roman Square Capitals –Variations
Weight Square Capitals (4th century book hand) Open Roman Capitals (Gunnlauger Briem) Poems
1 2 Weight
Square Capitals (4th Century Roman Prestige Book Hand)
3 LETTER HEIGHT:
3 nib widths tall.
PEN ANGLE:
5 degrees.
Open Roman Capitals
(Based on Gunnlauger Briem’s lettering) 4 PEN ANGLE:
30 degrees using a very thin nib to maintain slight thick and
thin lines.
Use a pencil to trace the outline of the letters first.
Poems
5 If by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Desiderata by Max Ehrmann (1927)
6 Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your
own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about
love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not
distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child
of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Medieval, from the Eighth Century
With Numerals, including Gothic; Church Text, Large and
Small; German Arabesque; Initials for Illumination,
Monograms, Crosses, &c.
The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Medieval, from the Eighth Century
With Numerals, including Gothic; Church Text, Large and
Small; German Arabesque; Initials for Illumination,
Monograms, Crosses, &c.
