How to Hand Letter is a bright and friendly YouTube channel run by Suzy, an artist who has helped over 300,000 creatives learn how to create beautiful and modern calligraphy and hand lettering ...

In its earlier form, calligraphy was calculated—all letters measured precisely to create a unified, clean template. But modern calligraphers have scrapped some of the rules of old calligraphy ...

Of all our letter forms, the O is arguably the simplest. One stroke moving in one direction. A circle, perhaps an oval, grounded and elemental. A pair of rounded lips, an eye, an egg, the earth.

“Calligraphy has lost out to economics and technology but computers are no match for the for the lively flair with which words flow from the qalam (pen) and each alphabet is coined by the artist ...

It spells out the phrase "If Words Could Kill" and, for Saai, this graphic, modern work by Iraqi artist Ayad al-Kadhi, dovetails neatly with the theme of Sharjah's Calligraphy Biennial.