Or more, or less.<\/p>\n
I don’t really even know why I’m writing about this, except that I spent a little while working it out, and it seems a pity to deprive the internets of my vast wisdom (<= HUMOUR).<\/p>\n
So. There’s a category of fountain pen nib called “Broad.” I don’t know what that corresponds to in millimetres or anything…pen nibs have a special set of measurements all of their own. “Broad,” “Broad Broad” (that’s B2<\/strong>), “Broad Broad Broad” (B3<\/strong>)* and so forth. When you get up to about B6 they shift paradigm into C nibs, don’t know what that’s all about, maybe they were worried that more than two digits wouldn’t fit onto a fountain-pen nib, they are pretty small after all.<\/p>\n Anyway, the point is, I find that when I’m writing with a B nib, I like to have a 4mm wide line for the lettering, with 5mm lines between. This is a matter of taste and pragmatics – 4 and 6 is easier to mark up, but that makes the text block too big to fit nicely on 18*24 paper. Of such considerations is art made – being too lazy to think about the nine-times-table (and I have a degree in mathematics you know), and being forced into it regardless because the paper isn’t big enough. <\/p>\n So you get out your portable drafting board that you bought off Craigslist, and your ruler and your set-square, and you mark out 4- and 5-mm lines. How do you know how wide to make the lines, and how many of them to make? That’ll be part 2.<\/p>\n *I did those in bold for the joy of typing<B>B2<\/B>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Or more, or less. I don’t really even know why I’m writing about this, except that I spent a little while working it out, and it seems a pity to deprive the internets of my vast wisdom (<= HUMOUR). So. There’s a category of fountain pen nib called “Broad.” I don’t know what that corresponds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calligraphy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}