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Calligraphy



What is it?

Using a pen or other implement to create, as its Greek derivation tells us, beautiful (calle) writing (graphos). Unlike the lettering artist, the calligrapher typically uses familiar strokes of the pen to draw letters.


Hand-picked Links

 • Belle Lettere
 • Britannica: Calligraphy
 • Cynscribe Calligraphy Compilation
 • The Society of Scribes and Illuminators
 • Vellum Gallery of Calligraphy, Illumination, and Letter Arts
 • Victoria and Albert Museum: Modern Calligraphy Collection
 • CBBAG: Calligraphy
 • Islamic Calligraphy with Mohamed Zakariya


People in the field of Calligraphy

We know of 100 people who work in this field:

A
Ali Almasri
Bernard Arin
Ludovico degli Arrighi

B
Peter Bain
Arthur Baker
John Baskerville
Konrad F. Bauer
Jill Bell
Georg Belwe
John Benson
Bo Berndal
Alan Blackman
Johannes Boehland
Raphael Boguslav
François Boltana
Charles Borges de Oliveira
Philip Bouwsma
Richard Bradley
Chris Brand
Walter Brudi

C
Will Carter
Michael Clark
Manuel Eduardo Corradine
Giovan Francesco Cresci

D
Donald Day
Victor Yb Delgado Revueltas
Ernst F. Detterer
Antonio DiSpigna
Timothy Donaldson
Xavier Dupré
William Addison Dwiggins

E
Jean Evans

F
Alfred Fairbank
Felice Feliciano
Peter Fraterdeus
Henri Friedlaender

G
Michael Gills
Kate Gladstone

H
Rosemary Hall
Graily Hewitt
Karlgeorg Hoefer
Kris Holmes

J
Donald Jackson
Steve Jobs
Edward Johnston

K
Teri Kahan
Albert Kapr
David Kettlewell
Akira Kobayashi
Rudolf Koch
Koi
Hildegard Korger
Jan van Krimpen
Lyubov Kuznetsova
L
Margaret Layson
Gilles Le Corre
Thomas Lincoln
Richard Lipton
Jean Lochu

M
Mary L. Marino
Alexander Marshall
Gabriel Martínez Meave
Dung van Meerbeeck
Oldrich Menhart
Gary Munch

N
David Nalle
Masoud Nejabati
Brody Neuenschwander
Friedrich Neugebauer
Gerrit Noordzij

P
Giambattista Palatino
Dennis Pasternak
Friedrich Poppl
Herbert Post
Thierry Puyfoulhoux

R
Friso M. Roest

S
Jacqueline Sakwa
Werner Schneider
F.H. Ernst Schneidler
Peter Schnorr
Satwinder Sehmi
Paul Shaw
Susan Skarsgard
Elmo van Slingerland
Rudo Spemann
Paul Standard
Sumner Stone

T
Geofroy Tory
Duško Trifunović
Jan Tschichold
Carol Twombly

V
Paul Veres
Rudolf von Larisch

W
Hideaki Wada
Julian Waters
Emil Rudolf Weiss
Berthold Wolpe

Y
Rachel Yallop

Z
Hermann Zapf
Gudrun Zapf von Hesse


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