Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering

Note 13 — Chapter III · ACQUIRING A FORMAL HAND: (2) METHODS Position of the Desk — The Writing Level — Use of the Pen — Holding the Pen — Filling the Pen, &c.

Reading edition

If the edge of the nib were cut at right angles to the shaft, obviously the horizontal stroke would not be thin, and the true thick and thin strokes would be oblique (see “slanted pen” writing—fig. 9 & 11).

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