Rita Drysdall Pen Paper Ink
Look Calligraphy
Look Book
First published in Australia in 2018 by Pen Paper Ink
PO Box 404 Ormeau Qld 4208 email: penpaperink@blueflowerart.com
© 2018 Rita Drysdall
Look Calligraphy
Look Book
Contents
a thought
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Luxury Stationery
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Hand Crafted Scripts
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Inks
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Budget Friendly Options
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Our Mission
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Index
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Each script that we have developed is unique to us and each one has its own personality and suits different inks, papers and usage.
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Together with you, we can adapt and modify to suit your special occasion, event or need. We have one simple goal an that is to make your written word look its very best.
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“ � We have one simple goal an that is to make your written word look its very best.
We wanted to organise a functional compendium showcasing the various hand scripts that we have created for your stationery.
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Pen Paper Ink is a luxury hand lettering and calligraphy studio creating bespoke stationery for weddings, engagements, births, and business.
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High quality luxury stationery speaks elegance and exudes a sense of timelessness.
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Luxury Stationery
High quality luxury stationery speaks elegance and exudes a sense of timelessness that is suited to many formal and informal uses.
From wedding invitations, marriage and birth certificate,
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At Pen Paper Ink, we take great pride in our calligraphy and hand lettering and have developed scripts that complement your occasions and needs.
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Pointed pen calligraphy is back in vogue! It is useful for personalising business stationery and logos as well as personal stationery.
formal and informal notices, business cards and other business stationery or signs, hand lettered touches combined with elegant fonts can add a sense of uniqueness to your stationery.
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Elegant stationery is always regarded as a luxurious mean of self expression. Today, many are using gone-by skills to make their mark unique to them.
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“ ” Bespoke stationery is the ultimate luxury.
Hand Crafted
Scripts Various styles of calligraphy can be used for your crafted stationery and each one conveys a different and unique feel to the writing. The styles that are available at Pen Paper Ink are: • • • •
Spencerian Copperplate Modern Child Fun
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Each hand written piece is unique in itself and has its own personality with variations from one piece to the next. It is these variations that make hand crafted calligraphic work quaint, quirky and bespoke stationery the ultimate luxury.
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In the following pages, each style will be shown separately and explained with suggestions of inks to use.
Our preference for Miss Champion’s style Spencerian script is based on its elegant simplicity and suitability to modern times.
Spencerian Spencerian script was developed from various scripts by Platt Rogers Spencer in 1849 to an oval style. Before the use of typewriters, it was considered to be the de facto hand writing script from 1850 to 1925 in business correspondence. The script could be written quickly and was regarded as elegant. Its popularity increased rapidly and soon began being taught in schools. It was gradually replaced in schools with the Palmer Method but is enjoying a resurgence in modern times to grace formal wedding stationery and ornate documents such as marriage and birth certificates. At Pen Paper Ink, we have adopted Master Calligrapher Miss Mary Champion’s style for the capital letters.
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Our preference for Miss Champion’s style is based on its elegant simplicity and suitability to modern times.
Spencerian Script in Walnut Ink PAGE 11 // 30
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Copperplate PAGE 12 // 30
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Copperplate is an English round hand style and an umbrella term to describe pointed pen calligraphy. It is characterised by oval letters with thick down strokes and thin upstrokes. The script was based on Italic Cursiva. It evolved and was standardised to a round hand in the 17th and 18th centuries. This script is suitable for both formal and informal correspondence, invitations and certificates and can be dressed with ligatures and swirls.
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Copperplate Script in ultramarine blue ink
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Modern Script in turquoise watercolour
Modern Script At Pen Paper Ink, we have developed our very own and unique Modern Script. It is our signature script and is by far the most popular of our scripts for wedding invitations and business logos. We combine it with either a serif font such as Garamond or Trajan for a sophisticated look or Gotham Light for a more upbeat look. Our Modern Script together with the pared fonts we have selected for our clients are also ideal for letterpress, embossing and foiling.
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This script is suited to all the calligraphy inks and looks especially good in watercolour or gouache.
Child Fun
Child Fun is a child like hand written script we have developed for children’s stationery and informal notices such as party invitations. This script is mainly created with markers and chalk. It is informal and fun and suited to colourful elements that make distinctive stationery without limiting it to children party invitations. It is also ideal for birth announcements and baby shower invitations.
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With our very own unique process, we can transfer chalked Child Fun to a textured dark paper for a chalkboard look. This process has been very popular in engagement and baby shower invitations and notices.
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Inks The inks that are used in hand written calligraphy convey different feelings and looks. Some of the inks we use are: • • • • • •
Walnut Sumi Gouache Watercolour Metallic inks Markers and Chalks
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At Pen Paper Ink, we can mix colours and textures for the best match to your stationery.
Walnut Ink
Walnut ink conveys a sense of old age. It is made from the green husks that surround the walnut and is a semi transparent rich sepia brown in colour. It can be in liquid form or crystal form. The crystal form will require mixing with water and gum arabic to a consistency suitable for writing. With its semi transparent texture and staining qualities, it can be used to stain paper to make it look older.
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It suits both modern and older styles such as Spencerian and Copperplate scripts. The Spencerian script illustrated on page 10 was written with walnut ink.
Sumi Ink
Sumi is a long standing ink used traditionally in Chinese and Japanese cultures for writing and painting. It has found its way to calligraphers stock in trade and is used extensively for practice and for luxury stationery. The ink can be ground from stone and mixed with water and naturally occurring glues or purchased already mixed.
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We also find that using a higher grade ink allows for better transformation to vectors for business logos and for printing stationery in bulk.
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Different grades of ink will results in different intensity of black and shimmer. Each calligrapher has different preferences. At Pen Paper Ink, we used the highest grade of Sumi Ink for maximum intensity, a crystalline shimmer and raised texture.
Watercolour and Gouache Not strictly inks, watercolour and gouache are popular options selected by our clients.
Watercolour is a transparent water based paint which is easy to mix and match to the your palette to bring conformity and style to the luxury stationery. The transparency of watercolour is well matched to thick hand made cotton and linen papers. Gouache is an opaque water based paint that can be used in calligraphy when an opaque mix is required. Its opacity also brings a slightly raised look to the calligraphy adding texture to the stationery.
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With our experience in colour mixing watercolour and gouache, we can match the palette being used in an event to colour coordinated stationery and signage.
Metallic Inks Gilded touches and metallic inks in gold , rose gold, copper, silver or platinum can add a beautiful effect to stationery and bring the additional attraction of reflected light to your words. Metallic inks add refinement to your written word and certain elegance.
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Markers Chalks
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We use markers and chalks mainly in signage however, our processes allow us to duplicate hand crafted markers and chalks material to stationery. Markers and chalks are a great way to add some fun to your event signs when used in on mirrors, glass, old windows, acrylic shapes, marble and even agate or leaves.
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At Pen Paper Ink, we aim to please.
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If hand lettered stationery is not for you, we can offer you a selection of luxury fonts. To allow everyone to have beautiful stationery, we have selected a number of font combinations that can look fantastic without breaking the budget. At Pen Paper Ink, we also aim to please the discerning clients with a limited budget.
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With this in mind, we have combined sets of fonts suitable for luxury stationery without the cost of hand written ink. These combinations may also suit some tastes more than the hand crafted scripts.
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Budget Friendly
Options
Among the Wild Flowers Script RALEWAY REGULAR
Loca� Ma���t Sc�ipt Local Market Regular
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Marlow Pro
Skitch Shaded
lovingly friends script
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Lovingly Friends Serif
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Our mission is to make everything as easy as possible for you.
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Our Mission Our Mission is to make everything as easy as possible for you and to provide you with the bespoke stationery that speaks luxury.
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Our work flows were designed to help you every step of the design process to ensure that your stationery is perfect in every way.
Index
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Among the Wild Flowers Script Font 26 Inks Chalks 23 B Chalks 19 Bespoke Stationery 9 gouache 22 Butterscotch Font 26 Gouache 19 C markers 16, 23 Chalk 16, 23 Markers 19 Chalkboard 16 metallic inks 23 Champrion, Miss Mary 10 Metallic inks 19 Children party invitations 16 Sumi 19, 21 Chinese 21 Walnut 19 Copper 23 Walnut ink 20 Copperplate 20 Watercolour 19, 22 E Italic Cursiva. 12 Embossing 15
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Foiling 15 Fonts Among the Wild Flowers Script 26 Butterscotch 26 Garamond 15 Gotham Light 15 Local Market Regular 26 Local Market Script 26 lovingly friends script 27 Lovingly Friends Serif 27 Marlow Pro 26 Raleway Regular 26 Skitch Shaded 27 Trajan 15 Fonts 25 Gold 23 Gouache 15, 22 Gum arabic 20 PEN PAPER INK
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Japanese 21
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Letterpress 15 Local Market Regular Font 26 Local Market Script Font 26 Logos 21 Lovingly friends script Font 27 Lovingly Friends Serif Font 27 Luxury stationery 7
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Markers 16, 23 Marlow Pro Font 26 Metallic Inks 23
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Opaque 22
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Pen Paper Ink 5, 10, 15, 21, 25 Platinum 23 Pointed pen calligraphy 7
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Raleway Regular Font 26
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Script Child Fun 9, 16 Copperplate 9, 12 Modern 9, 15 Palmer Method 10 Spencerian 9, 10 Self expression 7 Service 29 Silver 23 Skitch Shaded Font 27 Spencerian 20 Spencer, Platt Rogers 10 Sumi 21
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Transparent 22
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Walnut ink 20 Watercolour 15, 22 Workflows 29