16 May
2010
I've always loved the oldschool typefaces, especially Schwabacher.. A week or two ago, I got an idea - to learn it and be able to write letter to someone.
So I got Rotring ArtPens, found chart for blackletter gothic typeface (Fraktur) which seemed cool enough and didn't look very hard.
For the last week, I've been trying to write few letter or sentences a day. The last attemp were two sentences from Lorem Ipsum text. I know it could look much better, that few letter just suck, etc. But I'm gonna practice :)
Hardest letters are capitals and s, c, e, l, t. I've wrote a whole page of lowercase s and I still suck at it.. Maybe 10 more pages will do the job. We'll see.