Calligraphy Italics: Combining Capitals & Lower Case

Video Transcript

"Now as you're going along and practicing your capitals, I'm sure you're going to find that you like some and others you don't like. So one thought is that very rarely in English writing do we see all capitals. So I want to encourage you to combine your capitals with lower case. And I think you'll be much more pleased with your capitals when you see them in conjunction with other letters. So the T that you don't like the way it looks too well, might simply be wonderful when you put it with other letters. So here I'm going to combine some of my capitals with my lower case, keeping in mind that I have abbreviated or amended the guideline system, and I'll show you that in a minute. So that here we have the lower case height, which is five pen widths, and here we have the ascender height which is three pen widths, and when we add them up, it equals the capital height. So that, it's very simple to put letters together and not to have to write separate guidelines for each of them. So I'll leave you with a word and I hope you will continue to practice. There it is. You have the whole alphabet."