Wedding Calligraphy and How to Select the Perfect Font

Wedding Calligraphy and How to Select the Perfect Font

How to have your Wedding Envelope Calligraphy Coordinate with your Wedding Invitation Font
Sackers English Italic is a font favourite for us when creating an classic, elegant wedding invitation suite.
Wedding Font - the most elegant
 
Considerations to make when selecting your Calligraphy Font:
Study the font on the invitation and look for ascenders on the uppercase letters - Do your letters have ascenders? Do these letters have loops or not ? 
For example: there are two styles of R's - you will wish to match the capital letters as close as possible in the calligrapher's style
Look at the L and the B - are there ascenders or descenders?  Is it straight or do they have a loop?
Elegant font for wedding calligraphy
What is an Ascender?
In typography and handwriting (calligraphy), an ascender is the upward part of a letter that is above the typical height of a capital letter - the stem of a lowercase k, b or d are lower case letters that may have ascender. 
What is a Descender? 
In typography and handwriting (calligraphy), a descender is the downward part of a letter that is below the typical baseline - the stem of a lowercase p,q, and g are lower case letter that may have a descender.
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