Inktober - Once there were NIBS !

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ONCE THERE WERE NIBS !

Once upon a time before software and svg vector objects and paths and digital pens or even makers one had to have a variety of metal nibs and an holder or have a strong steady hand and a "crow" quill or use a refillable fountain pen to INK !

Who else had or still has one of these#speedball #manuals ?

Or a few of these?

Pen and brush

PEN AND BRUSH
More samples to consider.

I created this image in Inkscape and then changed it to a png for uploading to the blog.

Ugh I left an I  out of handwriting.

Now consider this though the scribes who created the uncial forms that American Uncial is based on cut and used their pens or quills at a different angle to those who developed the Italic scripts elegant derives from.

An ACTUAL handwritten version of the Bradley hand example could vary in shape depending on whether it was written with a reed pen or quill or metal nib and whether the nib was square cut or round or cut at an angle.

Brushed font well a "DRY" brush effect not a fully loaded really wet brush

Segoe that looks rather similar to modern felt tip liner pens?

Try an experiment type the same word in several font types and then write the word on a variety of pens or brushes, reed, metal nib, felt tip pen, lettering brush.

The letter shapes will vary.

Try it!?