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Tag Archives: handwriting

The Paradigm of the Stroke

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Ben Mitchell

Recently, we were visited by Will Hill, ex-Reading student and now Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at Anglia Ruskin University. His lecture touched upon something that’s been bothering me for some time… Continue reading ▸

Tagged construction • Fenland • handwriting • MATD • Noordzij • stroke • stroke model • type • type design • typography • writing
 

Learning to read handwriting

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Posted on February 5, 2012 by Ben Mitchell

These intriguing old French and Spanish school books, from Michael Twyman’s personal collection, were made for helping people learn to read different handwritings. The handwriting throughout the books gets progressively harder to read.               … Continue reading ▸

Tagged French, handwriting, reading, Spanish
 

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