Description: A daily calligraphy blog about alphabets and projects done in pen. Advice to the novice and musings for those more advanced in the art of penmanship.
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I'm blessed with beautiful letters to see in my neighborhood. But this means I can't avoid seeing the un-beautiful letters too, or more often the awkward spaces between the letters. When Boston threw itself into the Gothic Revival in the later 19th century, its Roman lettering suffered. Shown here is a cautionary example of all the inscriptions that could have been better spaced.
Enjoy the letters around you and the spaces between them.
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