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Summary: Punctuation is a huge aspect of calligraphy that can add or take away from your piece. Learn tips on how to place punctuation from a calligraphy expert in this free video clip.
Mary W. Hart has been a calligrapher for over 35 years, since she first learned it as a student of Arnold Bank at Carnegie Mellon University, in the course of my studies for a Graphic...read more
"So now that you know the punctuation marks, let's take a look at how they fit in with the letters. And because they are small, often very small, sort of tiny marks, we're going to be able to tuck them into the letters a little bit more than you might think. So if we're ending a sentence and let's say I'm ending a word n I might just put the period right there. If I'm adding an apostrophe, so let's say r apostrophe, I'm going to put the apostrophe up here, s. So depending if I'm putting a comma in, I might have a y and I'm going to tuck that comma right in. If I'm ending with a letter r, and I'm putting a period, I might tuck it right under the letter. In other words, we don't have to leave extra space for a hypothetical body of the letter. We're going to tuck these in close to the letters."
eHow Article: Calligraphy Letters & Punctuation