Learn & articles
Clear guides to calligraphy tools, scripts, practice sheets and East Asian brush writing.
Fundamentals
How to read a calligraphy practice sheet
Understand ascender, x-height, baseline, descender, slant guides and the 50 mm scale check before you start writing.
Broad-edge, pointed and monoline: three different tools
The nib is part of the geometry. Broad-edge, pointed and monoline tools create contrast in different ways.
How to measure nib width — and what nib angle means
Measure the writing edge, not the whole nib body, and keep nib angle separate from letter slant.
Common beginner mistakes — and useful corrections
A practical checklist for scale, tool choice, pressure, spacing and practice-sheet setup.
Scripts
Uncial for beginners: what to practise first
A practical starting route for broad-edge Uncial without pretending there is one universal historical recipe.
Italic calligraphy for beginners
Understand the interaction of broad-edge angle, letter slant, narrow proportions and rhythm.
Foundational hand: a structural starting point
Why Foundational hand is widely used to study round minuscule structure and broad-edge discipline.
Tools & materials
Calligraphy inks: choose by tool, not just colour
A practical distinction between dip-pen calligraphy ink, fountain-pen writing ink and brush/sumi practice.
Paper for calligraphy: surface, absorbency and practice
Why paper changes the behaviour of ink and brush or nib, and how to choose a useful practice surface.
East Asian calligraphy
A grounded introduction to Japanese Shodō
What changes when calligraphy is made with a brush, ink, paper and inkstone rather than a metal nib.
Chinese calligraphy: tools and practice grids
The Four Treasures and the structural purpose of 田-style, 米-style and nine-palace practice grids.
Korean Seoye: an introduction to brush calligraphy
Hangeul, Hanja, brush control and the traditional tools of Korean calligraphy.
Resources
3D printing
How I print CalligraphyToolkit 3D models
The exact workflow I used for the first physical practice-guide test: OpenSCAD, F6, STL, PrusaSlicer and ordinary PLA.
Ink guideline roller kit: roller, handle, axle and spacers
How the CalligraphyToolkit ink roller is intended to work, which parts are needed, and what is still a prototype.