Remember Leafy Green  from last week?  You can turn it into Poinsettia .  Rinse out your pen and write these pointy italics with red ink...

Gothic letters are inspiring to design with.  Their medieval flavor is closely identified with Christmas customs, which mainly came from ...

I love what happens when letters repeat.  In Snowflakes , I have oriented each letter, done in pointy Gothic outline, at a 60° angle arou...

The pointed letter body we saw in Leafy [November 30, #283] can look even leafier in color as Leafy Green .   .  

Note: I got a little rushed on this alphabet: I forgot to use waterproof black ink for the outlined title.  Red and green watercolor inks...

Elf is just a simple nod to "It's Christmas!" Use basic outlined Gothic letters and fill the upper half with green, using a...

Flower Box is a hard alphabet to just sit down and write.  I've broken it into letter groups, but even then, many of the letters don...

Back Slant Gothic is an extra-tall version of "Disinclined Gothic" we saw earlier (August 10 # 188).  

I'm taking today off to have thanksgiving dinner.  You can make a turkey out of a T, or vice versa. 

Like yesterday's Alphabet Advent calendar, today's ABC Advent calendar uses letters to map the road to December 25.*  A child can...

Ever since the Gothic Revival of the 19th century, its calligraphy has been connected to things wild, romantic, mysterious, eerie, and ot...

This alphabet, Skritchy , not only looks but sounds creepy.   Take a coffee-stirrer and break it in half.   Dip it in black ink.   ...

This is an all-purpose, mildly ugly alphabet.   Swab looks just wrong enough to make the reader uneasy.  You make it by rolling an inky Q...

As we discussed in this week's project, it's harder than it looks for calligraphers* to write ugly letters on purpose.  (By acci...

Today is  United Nations  day, so here are two medieval initials in color, plus nine different black and white versions of U  and  N .  Pea...

This alphabet is made by using the pen strokes of Hebrew calligraphy to write the letters forms of the Roman Alphabet.  I've named it  ...

Today is Blame Someone Else Day ,* which falls on Friday the Thirteenth.  And who needs a scapegoat more than calligraphers, who make typos...

This alphabet comes from my book Calligraphy Alphabets Made Easy .  You can find four other Hebrew-themed alphabets there, plus three mor...

These nine versions of the letter L come from my book Capitals for Calligraphy .  I like the idea that the scribe's labor comes in s...

This comes from my book,   Capitals for Calligraphy , now out of print but easily available second-hand .   This is not actually a who...