Closed Loop G

[wallylynn]

So, this study on the closed loop g is making the internet rounds. (I identified the correct one.) But I can't write it. Google search, must filter the study, gives few results. How does one write a closed loop g? Is there even a standard way like we have for the other letters?

 

 

 

http://time.com/5227714/letter-g-brain-writing-reading/

[Lloyd]

It's how I write them (I don't usually write in cursive). When I taught at the blackboard, I used to show my class my closed loop g and my typography style "a" (I'm not sure of its name).

[Lloyd]

I write my closed loop g in two parts: first I write a lower case sigma (counterclockwise), then I write the descending arc which then flows into the bottom loop (counterclockwise).

[Runnin_Ute]

With the closed loop g (as the article calls it), it is only called for in print and then not in most print hands. Not at all in cursive. The "two story" (again authors term) at least to me, feels more natural than the g. It was at one time part of my printing though for a rather extended period of time. So I can make it pretty easily. Most of the time I print however, I use a hand that is a combination of ALL CAP block printing and cursive. So I don't use it a lot anymore. Or just all caps. Depending on my need.

[amberleadavis]

I may need to practice that g. I was unable to do it correctly.

[bobje]

 

There's a similar g in italic examples from Niccolo de Niccoli.

 

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

Hmmm. Bobje, I'm looking at your exemplar and I think the "g"s are actually just flourish-y "fishhook" "g's. Especially given that there is a more "standard" "g" (i.e., "fishhook") in the word "magnu" on the seventh line of the exemplar.

I read the article, but Ghostery is blocking the inner link.

Interesting article. Although, truthfully, I think overal.the article may be of more interest to typographers than calligraphers. Not that this is a bad thing (I had a professor in college who thought that designing a typeface would be just the coolest thing on the planet...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ehemem]

I use cursive italic for my handwriting and use both forms of the "g"...

[dcwaites]

 

Apologies for the feathering. Apparently Thistle clerical blue-black in a dip pen doesn't work well on Whitelines pad paper.

Edited May 4, 2018 by dcwaites