Video: Calligraphy in Northern Gothic: Pt. 1

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Sometimes Northern Gothic style is referred to as black letter in type. Learn about the Northern Gothic style in calligraphy with this free handwriting video from a calligrapher.

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We're going to do a little skippity do die here. And go from our insular half uncial. Jump over, what we call the Carolingian minuscule. And make our way to a book hand, 11th through 15th centuries that or there abouts. And it's what I, what I'm going to call the Northern Gothic. And this sample that I'm going to show you, is very generic. O.k. Here is a beautiful book, The Glories of the Tre's Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry. O.k. And if you can get your hands on this book. This book has beautiful examples of that hand. With incredibly rich illumination. But the Gothic hand is another one of those hands. Sometimes, it's referred to as black letter. In type, it would be referred to as black letter. And that terminology comes from the fact that the letters were so densely created. So densely drawn. That the whole look of the page actually started to be like black. So again, what you have, is a letter that. Is kind of, scrunched this way and scrunched this. And pulled that way. And with lots and lots of angles. And you know what? It's a pretty easy letter to draw, compared to the Roman for example. And yes, we are now at a point on history. When we have very distinct upper and lower case letters. Only we call them, majuscule and miniscule. Get to about here. And then you've got to pull over. Come down and then down this way. The counter should be same with, as the broad edge. Counters in between the letters. The spaces in between the letter need to be even. You know what, sometimes they would put this little bit of a, sort of a hook like thing. On the ascender, just to, just to give a little indication to the eye of the reader. That is is in fact an ascender.

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Calligraphy in Northern Gothic: Pt. 1

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