RE: Machine Calligraphy
- From: "richard.jarvis@xxxxxxxxxx" <richard.jarvis@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: fptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 16:46:25 -0400 (EDT)
The discussion on this has floated around in my sleep deprived head for a
couple of days, so I looked it up. Here are a series of definitions I got for
"calligraphy" on the web:
Definitions of calligraphy on the Web:
The art of beautiful writing. Broadly, a flowing use of line, often varying
from thick to thin.
www.ackland.org/tours/classes/glossary.html
This is an ornate highly stylized form of handwriting seen on expensive wedding
invitations and other places.
www.weddingzone.net/px-pl081.htm
the art of writing beautifully.
www.ket.org/artofthehorse/ed/glos.htm
the art of handwriting where the writing has been done in an ornamental way.
www.wideskiesart.com/fineartglossary1.php
the art of decorative handwriting
medievalwriting.50megs.com/glossary2.htm
Elegant, decorative writing, developed to an artform itself, used to enhance
the artistic appeal and visual beauty of handwritten papers and manuscripts.
www.brigantine.atlnet.org/GigapaletteGALLERY/websites/ARTiculationFinal/MainPages/A-DVocabulary.htm
Elegant, decorative writing. Lines used in art works that possess the qualities
found in kind of writing may be called "calligraphic." They are generally
flowing and rhythmic.
www.khsd.k12.ca.us/bhs/Perry/art%20vocabulary.htm
Stylized handwriting used as art.
www.art-bazaar.com/artjargon.htm
The art of producing beautiful or elegant handwriting. Artists devote years to
refine their skills and utilize specialty nibs and inks to achieve the various
styles of calligraphy
www.scrapjazz.com/glossary/list.php
Fancy penmanship used in inscriptions, diplomas, manuscripts, and such.
www.buriedantiques.com/book_terms.htm
Custom hand-lettering in the Nouveau style, usually a date or name.
www.hearthworks.net/glossary/
A distinctive style of artistic handwriting created by using special pen nibs
that allow a calligrapher to vary the thickness of a letter's line elements.
The art flourished from the fourteenth through eighteenth centuries.
www.colorconcepts.com/glossary/c.htm
script that is intentionally decorative
members.tripod.com/bibliomane/c_d.htm
Handwriting as art. It probably reached its zenith as an art form in the 12th
to 15th century but has undergone a revival in recent years.
www.kidzpicz.com/Artist%20Manual/dictionaryofartisticterms.htm
A stylish manner of writing characters. The Japanese use three different
methods of calligraphy: Kaisho, Gyosho, and Sosho. Kaisho is a series of lines,
meticulously drawn in a square style and is not widely used by the Japanese.
Gyosho is a semi cursive style and Sosho is a cursive style, both used by the
Japanese because they take less time to write.
www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/dictionary/ChinaJapanKorea.htm
Writing which has been carefully written using a special pen or brush.
www.ahps.fivedock.syd.catholic.edu.au/html/artterms3.html
Literally this simply means "beautiful writing" but today is used to mean
wording created by hand, not with typesetting machinery. Many of our elegant
invitations utilize calligraphy as part of the design.
www.invitations.la/Invitations_101/invitation_glossary_of_terms.htm
Freehand, hand-formed letters
www.bucknell.edu/Library_computing/Collections_and_Borrowing/Special_Collections_University_Archives/Resources_for_Faculty_Students/Glossary_of_Terms.html
beautiful handwriting
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Calligraphy (from Greek êáëëïò kallos "beauty" + ãñáöïò graphos "writing") is
the art of decorative writing. A style of calligraphy is described as a hand.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligraphy
Given all of that, I think I'll have to agree that calligraphy is handwritten.
"Machine Calligraphy" should correctly be called typesetting (or these days
desktop publishing).
Richard
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