Category Archives: flat pen

Word ink 0011: persnickety

By Josh | Published: November 12, 2009

Word via @morsecodebird

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Word ink 0010: gutter splint

By Josh | Published: November 12, 2009

Word via @soundclamp

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Parallel Pen Follow Up

By Josh | Published: April 16, 2009

A few more details about the Parallel Pens…
Pilot Parallel Pens come in 4 nib widths (1.5, 2.4, 3.8, and 6.0 mm). It’s a very good range that can sufficiently cover most needs.

Adding an ink cartridge when starting a new pen or changing a color is easy. Simply insert the cartridge and give it a slight [...]

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The principle of writing with a broad or flat edged pen is simple. You can think of it as dragging a line of a consistent length and angle along a path. The direction the line is moving along the path determines the thickness of the stroke. It is the relationship between thick and thin strokes [...]

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Future font designers at KU

By Josh | Published: January 8, 2008

I’m pleased to announce that I will be teaching Lettering and Font Design at my alma mater, KU starting January 17th. This is going to be a incredible experience and learning opportunity for me and I can’t wait to get started. The postings have slowed down as I’ve been getting prepared for the class but [...]

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Lyricmation: The White Stripes – We’re Going to be Friends

By Josh | Published: December 13, 2007

Here’s the first results of my little experiment. the shakiness is due to the screen recording software tracking my mouse movement. So this is kinda like if you just held a pen in the middle of a page and someone moved the paper around to make the letters . I’ll see about turing [...]

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Ghoulish Glyphs 06: Happy Halloween!

By Josh | Published: October 31, 2007

Happy Halloween! Make it a great one!
I used a Brause broad-edge nib and black Sumi ink on the chipboard back cover of a sketch book for this one. Oh yeah, and a bit o’ Photoshop of course. This is the original scan.
Ghoulish Glyphs has been fun. I look forward to doing it again next year.

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Ghoulish Glyphs 04: Halloween haiku

By Josh | Published: October 26, 2007

Here’s a quick and dirty all caps font I created entirely in Illustrator with a flat pen brush using my Wacom Bamboo. I then took it into FontLab for spacing and font generation. Back In illustrator, I set the alphabet and wrote a Halloweenie haiku to go with it.

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