Calligraphy Group @calligraphy@groups.qoto.org

I found my first attempt at doing a caroligian script from years ago. The words at the time were just random unrelated practice words, i wasnt even trying to form a sentence. Funnily enough it turns out to be rather relevant and true anyway these many years later.

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I love a beautiful ink with sheen!

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Just did a rather intense repair job on 80 some year old fountain pen with adjustable nib. I can probably get close to 1k now for this thing if i ever wanted to sell.

I figured soldering the little tabs on might work better than glue... this is my 4th try but its working.

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Still one of my favorite phrases to write.

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Calligraphy is a great way to practice other languages.

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Sometimes copperplate is a bit hard to read :)

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A demo I did a while back showing what it looks like when I write in Copperplate Calligraphy form.

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QT: https://video.qoto.org/videos/watch/4f9bba66-e290-4fec-8feb-8ee43d69ef35

My latest pen is a wet-noodle (extremely flexible) 100+ year old fountain pen. She writes beautifully and is a Waterman's 42 1/2 (the creator of the fountain pen). Moreover she is a safety pen, meaning the nib retracts into the barrel before you put the cap on. There arent too many of these floating around after over 100 years!

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For this weeks #FollowFriday I am going to do a groups addition.

@Electronics - An Electronics Group
@theamazingweb - A group about interesting and novel things on the internet.
@vim - A group for everything VIM
@funny - A group for humour and memes
@mnmlsm - A group devoted to discussing unix and related topics
@calligraphy - A group devoted to sharing and discussing calligraphy & handwriting
@FreeSoftware - A group for discussing Free and Open-source software
@math - Everything math!
@dogs - A group for sharing pictures of dogs, for any reason.
@Science - A group to discuss Science topics.
@photography - A group for sharing or discussing photograph.

So its been about a month since the QOTO Moderated Groups Server came online at groups.qoto.org. It adds group capability to the fediverse with an owner capable of moderating membership in the group unlike previous group servers which were completely unmoderated and open.

We have had some amazing groups form and overall the server seems to be the most popular on the fediverse, I’m seeing more activity than the open-group servers which is great!

As such I wanted to share a list of a few groups I know of so far in case anyone is looking for a group to follow. Just follow the group as you would a user and you will be in the group and receive group posts in your timeline!

#Electronics #EE #VIM #Funny #Humour #meme #memes #unix #linux #Calligraphy #Handwriting #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #math #maths #mathematics #dog #dogs #doggo #Science #Photography #Pictures #FF

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I cant get over the Sheen on this ink. Kiwi custom inks are insane!

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Neat little exercise I did a while back writing the word "minimum" in a way that renders identically when you flip it upside down.

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One of my favorite quotes of all time (hollander translation).

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Hello

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I updated the groups profile header, the image was submitted to the group by @jkn thank you jkn.

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Group owner here. If anyone has any calligraphy they wish to submit to the group for use as a profile banner I would be happy to use someone else's work.

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Some calligraphy to kick off the group.