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Handwritten text shows a personal side of its author, a side that is not easy to put into words and that contrasts with the standardized look of digital communication. This contrast and “aura” is perhaps what makes handwritten fonts so popular...

I want to start off this blog post by saying that the only calligraphy supplies you really need to begin learning to use a dip pen are listed in the Ultimate Modern Calligraphy Starter Kit post. To recap, the supplies include a Nikko G nib, a straight...

It’s hard to believe it’s been six years since I got to interview Tom Orzechowski.  He is not only one of the most prolific letterers out there, due in no small part to Chris Claremont’s scripts, but he’s something of a comic historian and a generally...

By Ben Granger. Once pop, rock or one of its hybrid offshoots passes a certain critical mass of seriousness, it often seeks to transcend its simple origins, and lends itself open to the influence of other art forms; other art forms including literature...

For those of us inspired by mass mobilizations in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, Turkey’s Gezi Park, Greece’s Syntagma Square, Spain’s Plaza del Sol, and even our “own” Zuccotti Park, it is easy for protests in Venezuela to...