I stumbled across the beautifully whimsical calligraphy of Betsy Dunlap while in the midst of an unrelated Google search and it stopped me in my tracks.

She seems to spend a great deal of time handling wedding invitations and the like, and has been featured on Design*Sponge but I’d love to see more; I would like to think this could be a potentially favourable pairing for the likes of Sudtipos/Alejandro Paul.

Everybody thinks that he knows an A when he sees it, but only the few extraordinary rational minds can distinguish between a good one and a bad one, or can demonstrate precisely what constitutes A-ness. When is an A not an A? Or when is an R not an R? It is clear that for any letter there is some sort of norm. To discover this norm is obviously the first thing to be done.

MyFonts posts an ‘interview’ with long-deceased Eric Gill on legibility, fine lettering, the moral qualities of type and the beauty of marks upon stone.

So we have the designer who designs what he never makes and the worker who minds the machine which makes what he never designs. And we have the salesman who neither designs things nor minds machines but is supposed to know what the public wants. But the public doesn’t know what it wants, and it has no means of finding out. [Gill, via MyFonts Creative Characters]

For now, I fit into the salesman category.