I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked....

- Allen Ginsberg

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

- Plato

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I aim to misbehave.

• Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly

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2.2 mm Kaweco. 5mm dot grid. Leuchtturm 120 g paper.

In the ways of Nature, there is no evil to be found.

• Marcus Aurelius

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Dreaming Dogs ruling pen work

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

• Tom Robbins

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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

• Michel de Montaigne

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We're all stories in the end.

• The 11th Doctor

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Recently I've been looking at the evolution of various Latin scripts. (Actually I was trying to piece together where the various 's'-es came from, like the mid-size 'r' shaped s from Carolingian minuscule)

I just came across this timeline that puts may of them together pretty well.

https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/arete/en

From a calligraphy standpoint, I'm curious about learning resources. I think it would be very interesting to have at least a passing ability to write most of them.

I've spent some time with Italic, both "modern" and from Arrighi and Cataneo. There seems to be a lot of resources for Italic, and a fair amount for various Gothic/Blackletter scripts.

Specifically I'm interested in:

• Rustic Capitals
• Roman Cursive (old and new)
• Uncials (full and half)
• Carolingian Minuscule
• Bastarda

I've seen a few things on each of those, though not a lot. Are there any good comprehensive sources? Ideally something that includes stroke order, several examples, and letter variants [in context].

Online is preferable, or PDFs/papers, but books are ok too.

Some of the resources I have found so far. Mostly focused on reading, not writing:

• https://hmmlschool.org/latin/
• https://typofonts.com/LATIN_PALEOGRAPHY.pdf
• https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/users/yorkdoom/palweb/index/index.htm (if you hit the "Feedback" links, there's a lot of information)

I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.

• C.S. Lewis

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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

• Caesar A. Cruz

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Hi guys, Trying to get hold of Arches Text Wove paper. I live in Finland. After an extensive search it seems that it is not available in the whole of Europe. Trying to source from US e.g. Amazon, John Neal) but I get "This product cannot be delivered to Finland". What's the problem?

Maybe someone could suggest a calligraphy paper of similar properties and available in Europe?

Juha

Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and disposable.

• Mrs. White, Clue

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub Bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!

• Lewis Carroll

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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

• Seneca

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Love is the ghost
Haunting your head
Love is the killer
You thought was your friend....

• Concrete Blonde, The Beast

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Leonardt principal ef, gouache

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

• Mark Twain

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God always has another custard pie up His sleeve.

• Lynne Redgrave

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Hello! I'm very new to the art of calligraphy and my main reason for interest is that id like to make medieval style manuscripts period correct as I can. To do this, id like to use a handmade goose feather quill but I can't find many resources on how to actually write with it. I was wondering if anyone knew a style that'd be related to specifically quills or considered close enough? Thank you in advance for your help!