🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

My quote of the day in Copperplate.

"As our circle of knowledge expands so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it." - Albert Einstein

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Still trying to find a style i like for the double L... Thoughts on this one?

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My favorite line from one of my favorite books as well as my favorite Epic Poem. Dante's Inferno, Canto 1, written in Italian in 1321, this uses my favorite translation's English text (Hollander Translation). Written in copperplate for practice.

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Today's quote of the day in Copperplate. Not my best work but a good quote.

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Another one of my favorite quotes in Copperplate.

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I did this quote on request from a friend.

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My favorite Shakespeare quote, this time in copperplate.

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One of my favorite Shakespearian quotes written in Caroligian script.

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Aside from that lowercase "a" that migrated a bit to the left my first attempt at Caroligian isnt too bad. I do love the look of the script.

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I decided to adopt Caroligian as my default script when printing.

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I was recently moved by this quote/poem and i wanted to share my practice writing it.

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Practicing my copperplate majiscules (and miniscules technically). Really loving the progress i made past few days but that majiscule B is horrible. I never can get the B right...

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What does everyone think of my new script for upper and lower case z? This spells Zanzibar. Also i improved my copperplate in general a lot recently i think. This was fast writing.

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As many of you know I had horrific handwriting a year ago and the last yea I have been practicing calligraphy. Thing is, I always practices very slow careful writing to get the letter forms as good as I can get it. I never once practiced hand writing at normal speeds as I was trying to improve.

Lately though ive been using my learning of Dutch as an opportunity to use my new found handwriting to reinforce various phrases. As such I am fast-writing for the first time and realize that somehow my fast writing is actually really good, maybe even better than my slow writing! I'm really stoked.

The attached image are three phrases I wrote about as fast as I possibly can write (few seconds) and they look pretty damn good!

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So after some tweaking and cleaning I think I'm going with this version for my middle name

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I really can't get enough of this ink. It looks like an unassuming purple-black ink most of the time but if the light hits it on an angle it suddenly becomes gold. It has no sparkles or flecks in it though.

This was written with my vintage franken-pen. It uses a 114 year old Waterman's Ideal #2 nib in a TWSBI Diamond with a new customized ebonite feed. The ink is Diamine's Phillip ink.

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Four pens, four inks, pick your champion (favorite).

1) A new TWSBI Demonstrator modified with a 120 year old Waterman 52 nib, fine point. KWZ's gold Iron-gall ink (starts light yellow, turns black after 30 seconds).

2) An actual 120 year old waterman 52 with broad nib. Diamine's Skull & Roses ink. This ink has a very unique sheen I've never seen in an ink.

3) A Pilot Falcon with extra food be nib. Diamine's Burnt Sienna ink.

4) Pilot Custom 912 with a modified nib (Mottishaw Spencerian Modification). Sailor Carbon Black pigment ink.

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The sheen on this ink is rather impressive. Gives is a very cool feel.

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For anyone interested here is a video I just took of me doing Copperplate with my flex pen.

https://video.qoto.org/videos/watch/4f9bba66-e290-4fec-8feb-8ee43d69ef35

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Which of the two Copperplate variations on the double-f do each of you prefer (try to imagine them once I practice more if you can).

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