Arts & Culture
calligraphy
calligraphy sample
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Arts & Culture
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- black letter
- Spencerian penmanship
- majuscule
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calligraphy, the art of beautiful handwriting. The term may derive from the Greek words for “beauty” (kallos) and “to write” (graphein). It implies a sure knowledge of the correct form of letters—i.e., the conventional signs by which language can be communicated—and the skill to make them with such ordering of the various parts and harmony of proportions that the experienced, knowledgeable eye will recognize such composition as a work of art. Calligraphic work, as art, need not be legible in the usual sense of the word. In the Middle East and East Asia, calligraphy by long and exacting tradition is ...(100 of 19049 words)