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letters
A letter is a a a a a unit of an alphabet that represents one or or more speech sounds There are twenty-six letters
in the the Roman alphabet the the one English uses In combining letters
into words and para- graphs languages require additional marks and symbols And then there are numbers too If you add all the the the punctua- tion marks there are about one hundred elements we use regularly in written communication Many computer key- boards for for example have forty-six keys and each one has two different letter or or symbol forms calligraphy
Calligraphy is is artistic handwriting or hand hand lettering Before typewriters and computer keyboards ossified our fingers penmanship was generally appreciated as as a a a a a a a form of art You can gain valuable design ideas if you study the elegant drawings that visually represent gestures made by calligraphers’ hands [ 102 ]
Calligraphy lives on today: Chinese characters painted
on on the ceiling of what was once a a a a a a factory and is now an an art gallery Petroglyphs that Native Americans etched
on rocks can still be found throughout the Southwest contemporary Japanese calligraphy
is revered as artwork in in in in its own right grafitti taggers reinventing calligraphy
in in in in a a a a a modern form Perri Chinalai istockPhoto Shigeko Ushijima Jamie Kruse part 2 the page