We all love them. We all crave them. We all want to achieve suuuper thin hairlines. When I first saw delicate calligraphy written with a 303 nib I was in awe! But how on earth was I supposed to achieve that when I was so heavy-handed? Well, I decided to work on it and less than a year later, hairlines is what people most often compliment me on. Today I want to share a few tips that I've learned to make hairlines thinner and prettier.

A quick comparison of different vectorizing methods in Adobe Illustrator.

Words are confusing, especially when it comes to those “mushy” terms where no one is really sure what they actually mean. You guys know I am crazy about research, you know I love to write, I also am a gigantic word-fanatic so this is a subject I have been spending a lot of time with. I get the question whenever I make a comment about the fact that I am bad at Hand Lettering and prefer Calligraphy.

A post about the relaunch of halfapx, the changes in design, content and the shop.

I was fourteen when I met the love of my life. Words and I had known each other forever. But we only had realized that we were a match two years prior, when I first realized that bending and blending and sorting and jumbling and putting together and tearing apart were things I really liked to do to words and sentences.

I know as a beginner, especially when you're not really sure if Calligraphy is really your thing any kind of investment is worth one or two thoughts. You don't want to spend a ton of money, unless you're sure. So what route should you go? Get everything cheap? Get everything good, so you really know it's not the tools that are bad? Here's a - slightly opinionated - post where saving is fine and when splurging might make a really big difference.