Old School Typography Tools — What is your favourite writing utensil?

[McBain_v1]

2B pencil, triangular cross-section, sharpened with a Stanley knife.

[russellm]

the ubiquitous graphite pencil

they are all good. Mostly.

The oldest know one was lost by a Bavarian Carpenter in 1600's

[Nick Shinn]

Left to right:

• Parker ball-point—Isn’t that sleek as a 707? I’ll click it again!
• Sheaffer calligraphic pen—laborious and needs a good warm-up.
• 3 mm mechanical pencil—handy for developing drawings (the top harbors an eraser).
• Uni Ball—good for notetaking in Moleskin.
• Parker fountain pen—smoother and faster than the Sheaffer.

[oldnick]

White cellophane tape was another handy addition to the toolkit for preparing camera-ready line art.

[BrettR]

Porsche Design has a cool concept for one of their pens. Quite ugly though..
Shake Pen

[Christopher Dean]

@BrettR: Magnificent Butcher is an awesome kung-fu film. I recommend watching it.

[BrettR]

Is this the type of movie you watch in the afternoon with a glass of shiraz or the type that you watch at 3am with lots of cheep beer by your side?

[Christopher Dean]

b

[BrettR]

Dually noted. I shall write it down on my Moleskine "Movies to Watch" list with my faux Montblanc.

[Riccardo Sartori]

Since we’re talking about wuxia films with ties to calligraphy, “The bare-footed kid” by Johnnie To (the hero learns to write with a broom) and “Hero” by Zhang Yimou (parallels between the art of calligraphy and the art of the sword are a major plot element) are a must.

[russellm]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JhQtN8R7fA8

[Riccardo Sartori]

https://typography.guru/forums/topic/101252-forwarding

[russellm]

Holy @!#$

I have committed the sin of posting a link that has already been posted in a different thread over a month ago and that I knew nothing about.

:o)

[Riccardo Sartori]

Did you? I thought your link was about water calligraphy, while mine is about snow calligraphy.

[hrant]

Just wait.

hhp

[russellm]

> Did you?

uh-oh... Whoops -Someone (moi) was on a hair trigger today. Sorry.

:o\

R