A few years ago I decided to rededicate myself both to cursive (purely as a aesthetic decision) and to calligraphy (a spiritual decision influence by cursive), both have been fruitful in their own ways. On top of this I have dabbled in the futhorc and elder futhark runic alphabet.
These 3 different alphabets: print, cursive, and runic, speak to something different than its spiritual or symbolic meaning of the font them selves: the utensils used and their technique derived from them. The runic alphabet is not apt for pen and paper in any fashion, it is for chisel, wood and stone and its font hints to its development in those mediums. Likewise cursive is likely the highest expression of technique a pen can yield. While prints legibility is all that matters for the press efficiency, be it the Guttenberg press or the Dell press.
To write with chisel and stone is art now, and to write with pen and paper is becoming one.
A few years ago I decided to rededicate myself both to cursive (purely as a aesthetic decision) and to calligraphy (a spiritual decision influence by cursive), both have been fruitful in their own ways. On top of this I have dabbled in the futhorc and elder futhark runic alphabet.
These 3 different alphabets: print, cursive, and runic, speak to something different than its spiritual or symbolic meaning of the font them selves: the utensils used and their technique derived from them. The runic alphabet is not apt for pen and paper in any fashion, it is for chisel, wood and stone and its font hints to its development in those mediums. Likewise cursive is likely the highest expression of technique a pen can yield. While prints legibility is all that matters for the press efficiency, be it the Guttenberg press or the Dell press.
To write with chisel and stone is art now, and to write with pen and paper is becoming one.
That's great, thanks for sharing. I'd love to hear more about that, particularly the runic chisel work.