Calligraphy Italic Capitals Height

Video Transcript

"As we're working on these letters I want to remind you that they are eight pen widths high. A pen width is determined by the tool that you're writing with. Whether you're using a marker that's cut with a calligraphy nib or whether you're working with a broad nibbed pen, I'm just going to show you how we measure the proportion of the letters. Each alphabet has its own proportion. For the italic, I've sort of chosen a midrange for the height and that's eight pen widths. So, if we count these, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. You're going to see that that is the eight times this particular pen. If you're using a smaller pen you're interval will be smaller and if you're using a larger pen your interval will be larger. Then, I'm going to fit the letters within that eighth pen width space. We'll call that the capital height. So, the capitals fit in like that and the lower case fits in like this."