blogophyte bulletin, think ink
One of the foundation stones of building a new website is the choice of fonts. As with colour selection, I look for a double whammy: a font (or colour) that has the visual impact echoing the character of the site, and a name to match. Choosing for meaningful names...
blogophyte bulletin, think ink
In developing a companion website dedicated to love of life and the joys of sharing it, I sifted thousands of script fonts to find one with the dancing kinetic energy I wanted. Spirit of Dance by Vera Holera won by a mile, and I have used it for the header text at...
paper shaper, think ink, writing & writers
Orlando enjoys a portfolio career, as a courtier, a diplomat, a landowner, a lady under house arrest, but throughout, he-she is also an aspiring writer, although it takes 300 years to finish a poem and to get near a publisher. Take heart if your work of art is taking...
paper shaper, think ink, writing & writers
Having a love of ink, the variety of its hues and the names people give them, and the chunky inventive shapes of ink bottles, I was enchanted by this notion of making your own ink from berries and wine. I imagine blueberries, blackcurrants or elderberries would be...
think ink, writing & writers
All laud to Labaume, going to such heroic lengths to write his journal. I will have to introduce this makeshift front-line writing into a story I’m concocting: gunpowder mixed with melted snow in the hollow of your hand, and your raven’s quill cut with the...
metaphors, think ink, writing & writers
How many notebooks, journals or letters have been swept away by circumstance, carrying the minutiae of memory with them? Leigh Fermor used his to reconstruct his travels in his books and he clearly never got over this loss. Elsewhere he mentions a journal having been...
a quote to note, think ink
It’s unusual to read such a detailed comment on the act of writing by hand. But once you have the paper chosen and the pen filled, it’s an absorbing motion. And such care taken by someone who is writing letters he never sends. ‘He cleared his bench and began...
a quote to note, think ink
Those were the days, when you could flaunt and vaunt through the thrill of the quill. The investment of time and effort was huge, however. Having learned you would have to stop every few lines to re-sharpen the nib, an action that echoes in ‘pen-knife’, I have new...
places & spaces, think ink
Stansted Park is an elegant house set in 1,700 acres of park and woodland in the south of England. Built in 1688, it burned down in 1900 and was reconstructed three years later. It has a beautiful arboretum, perfect for warm afternoon reading or thinking (or both),...
