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Type & fonts, lettering and calligraphy

I have been attracted by this domain for some time now.
I will present here some of my works and sketches.
I hope I will have more time to actually create fonts for all of them and make them available for download.

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My Calligraphy Gallery on flickr

Excellent option for the flickr galleries - a slideshow that can also be played externaly. Try the fullscreen option. Click the image below first. Thanks.

My flickr calligraphy Gallery

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Thanks - Digital Calligraphy

Another work of digital calligraphy created in Inkscape. Also available as a wallpaper on my free downloads page. A click on it will zoom in.

Thanks - Digital calligraphy. Created by Florin Florea.  Digital calligraphy. Created by Florin Florea. (detail)

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My Inkscape movie tutorials on YouTube

These are some of the videos I have recorded while using Inkscape for my digital calligraphy. I have placed some of them on the net on YouTube and Flickr so that more people will enjoy testing and working in Inkscape. More video tutorials will come. Meanwhile try Inkscape, it's free and very good.
Play them in full screen mode.

This was my first shared video. I wanted to show Inkscape's beautiful calligraphy tool.

Inkscape - Digital calligraphy

This one is about the fact that while drawing a line it can be drawn over using the Alt key pressed so that the new line will cut from the initial (or selected) line.

Digital calligraphy - Draw over to cut from an e - 40 fps

This video shows one of my brushes that I called "Curly". The settings are shown on my blog, at the end of the posting (Digital calligraphy samples).

Inkscape Calligraphy - My Curly brush

This video was recorede while I was playing with one letter (e) and making it look 3D in the 2D vector program.

Inkscape Digital calligraphy - Playing with a 3D letter e - 40 fps

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Digital calligraphy

Some of the digital calligraphy tests I did. These are entirely worked in Inkscape, so they are vector drawings only.
Click images for zooming in.

Digital calligraphy. Created by Florin Florea. Digital calligraphy. Created by Florin Florea. Digital calligraphy. Created by Florin Florea. Digital calligraphy. Created by Florin Florea.

Romanian archaic font. Created by Florin Florea. Digital calligraphy. Created by Florin Florea.

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Calligraphic font 2

I'm an Inkscape fan. I do almost all my digital calligraphy works in it, with my Wacom Intuos 3 graphic tablet. Some time ago I have seen the typefaces at the Handmade font and thought I should try something similar. All the letters were written in Inkscape and then used some filters. Each letter can be exported as big as an A4 page. This is work in progrress but almost finished.

Calligraphic font. Created by Florin Florea.

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Friends

This is a custom typeface I created (back in 2001) for my visual identity work for "Friends' Club". This is actually finalised as a font, yet the kerning requires more adjustments.

Friends font. All characters presented. Created by Florin Florea. Friends font. Sample text. Created by Florin Florea.

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