![]() It’s like the trick for ‘e’ and ‘c’, but you’ve swapped the order you draw the lines in and you’re working on the lower, left-hand corner of the vertical line, not the slightly higher right-hand corner.) (You might want to read that again and look at the example. The two oblique line-ends formed naturally by the nib should have joined at the top left of the ‘t’ to create a smooth, diagonal edge. Then place your nib (45 degrees!) to the left of that new vertical, so that the nib’s right-hand corner is just barely touching the outward corner of the angle, and draw a short bar straight across. Make sure your pen is still at 45 degrees. Then, angle cleanly down into a vertical, leaving a blunt corner where you changed direction. Start it about 5.5 nib-widths above the baseline, so that the first short, thin diagonal reaches down to just above the ruled line that marks the top of the x-height. ![]() It is shorter than ‘l’ but taller than ‘i’, ‘e’, ‘n’, etc. ![]() Note that the Gothic letter ‘t’ is not 7 nib-widths tall. Colour temperature for calligraphy and art. ![]()
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