Calligraphic Revival
カリグラフィー復興 / 1906– / Style / Letterform History
The modern revival of Western writing begun when Johnston rebuilt the foundational hand from medieval manuscripts. Through the Underground letters and Gill, the written hand became a source of modern design.
The broad pen's angle / The foundational skeleton / Reconstruction from manuscripts / The breathing of letter and space
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Johnston's Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering / the Underground alphabet of 1916 / the inheritance through Eric Gill