Calligraphy Handbook 3.8 - App Store

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About Calligraphy Handbook

It's proven that practicing calligraphy can quickly improve bad handwriting by a better understanding of letters' structure and proportion. Writing bigger letters helps to make curves and lines correctly. The beauty of...

It's proven that practicing calligraphy can quickly improve bad handwriting by a better understanding of letters' structure and proportion. Writing bigger letters helps to make curves and lines correctly. The beauty of the letters will make the task of writing more pleasant. Calligraphy is also a very constructive leisure. It develops virtues such as patience, attention to detail, perfection, willingness to learn, and the sense of beauty. Calligraphy is a full art form using letters, words and illuminations. It’s also a meditation process when your mind focuses on the strokes, beautifully draw lines and curves, following your intuition and inspiration. The only pre-requirement to this art is the knowledge of writing, which everyone is proficient. Calligraphy has a high potential of discoveries, it’s one of the rare art form that you can start from a basis you already know: writing letters and words. 1/ CALLIGRAPHY HANDBOOK is a perfect tool for learning and improving your calligraphy skill. As a beginner, the app will provide the best digital pens and papers for your learning. Don’t waste paper and ink now, digital tools are endlessly renewable. As a confirmed calligrapher, you will find pen and color effects that are impossible to create in real life: 6 small parallel lines, 4 size-lines, light effect pen, shaded line, rainbow effect, mixed colors in one stroke, alternated colors in one letter... 2/ CHALLENGE your friends in different writing styles, or simply evaluate your skill with the incredible calligraphy game. Reproduce a model inside a limited space, with a limited number of strokes, and see how many stars you can gain. Avoid actions as: undo, exceeding strokes or using tracing image. Otherwise your score will be heavily cut down. 3/ WRITING TOOLS: - 11 calligraphic pens - 1 pointed pen - 12 mixed colors effects - 12 alternated colors effects - 1 eraser - Smoothed strokes for all pens, let you draw perfect curves and lines. NOTE: we have intentionally made the strokes slower and smoother, because drawing beautiful letters has to be done in a slower speed compared to handwriting or painting. Calligraphy is a highly relaxing activity, a slow motion is the best for it. Writing features and supplies: - 19 calligraphic hands in a large choice of styles (more hands are coming with future updates) - Old papers - Guiding lines - Shadowed letters for tracing - 24 preset pen angles - 63 premixed colors - Export your writing to the camera roll or by email. - Palm rejection - Pen offset 4 / ARTISTIC CREATION. Calligraphy Handbook is a truly comprehensive tool for creating calligraphic works (greeting card, invitation, letterhead, logo, brochure, magazine cover, etc ... - Users can create true works of art with all the calligraphic tools. - An entire page is provided with layers management. - A gallery to save works in progress. - The gallery is organized by blocks, each block contains an unlimited number of pages. - The works and the blocks can be exported and shared in png or pdf formats. - Shadows and texture can be added to your lettering. 5/ TIPS: - Draw your letters very very SLOWLY. - Take a long breathe before a long stroke, then expire slowly and regularly while drawing. - Take a comfortable sitting position. - Clean up your screen frequently. - When following the lessons in this app, don’t pressure yourself to immediately draw perfect letters, but simply follow your intuition and focus on the movement of the strokes. It’s not so important to get completely correct letters, don’t forget, it’s not typography. - Relax yourself before starting a calligraphy session, you will have better strokes. Stretch and simply shake your hands and shoulders. Take a comfortable sitting position.

Version History Version 3.8: - General app improvement - Added a new function for using digital stickers to create decorative patterns - Added the possibility to generate drop shadows when using layers 3.8 Mar 21 Version 3.7.1: Minor bug fixes 3.7.1 07/30/2025 Version 3.7: - We have added stylish models to use as stickers or stencils. - More features for drawing with layers - Bug fixes 3.7 07/12/2025 Version 3.6.5: - Bug fixes 3.6.5 10/16/2024 Version 3.6: - We have added an amazing new function: "replace and adjust your last stroke". Instead of undoing your last stroke (which is well done but slightly misplaced), you can move it to the right place and angle. - Bug fixes 3.6 10/12/2024 Version 3.5: - General app improvement - Bug fixes 3.5 11/10/2023 Version 3.4: - Fixed the free trial time issue. The trial time will start for all users. If you have already purchased the unlimited full version, you have just to restore (for free) your purchase and continue to enjoy the app. - Bug fixes 3.4 11/03/2023 Version 3.3: - User interface improvement - Draw illuminated letters to embellish your works by using digital stencils or model boards. 3.3 07/11/2023 Version 3.2: - Added new features: 1) adjustable and mobile symmetrical decorative patterns. 2) moving symmetry: the axis of symmetry can be placed anywhere on the worksheet. - General improvement of the app. 3.2 05/19/2023 Version 3.1: - Renewed color palette - Add stylish textures to your lettering: art deco, art nouveau, retro style, tribal art, hatching patterns. Function accessible from the "layers menu". - Add shadows to your drawings. Adjust blur, opacity and position to the shadows. - Bug fixes 3.1 05/18/2022 Version 3.0: General improvement Display screens corrections 3.0 02/17/2021 Version 2.9: - Enhanced for iOS 12 - bug fixes 2.9 04/06/2019 - Fixing in-app purchase process - Minor bug fixes 2.8 05/11/2018 Version 2.7: - The in-app purchase process was improved. If you have already purchased the full version, just tap on the "RESTORE" button to recover your purchase for free. - General improvement for iOS11 - Filling patterns for the fill bucket function were corrected - We've fixed the issue in contact email. - Other minor bugs were fixed 2.7 02/01/2018 Version 2.6: • Font reference images: they are very helpful when you want to draw words and quotes on the full page. Just display the whole letter sheets as a reminder for each style of fonts. • Our new digital stencil ruler: like your plastic stencil ruler, align the digital stencil ruler under your writing paper, and trace your words letter by letter. Stencils cannot be zoomed but only moved around, their sizes are automatically adjusted according to the selected pen width. But, you can always move and zoom the writing sheet as usual. • Several improvements and bug fixes. 2.6 06/05/2017 Version 2.5: - We have added 3 series of incredible pen effects. To make them more easy to use, we have premixed the colors and provided about a hundred combinations. - Image references can be added on full page for drawing long words and quotes. - User interface improvements - bug fixes 2.5 05/01/2017 Version 2.1.5 - Minor user interface improvements - Bug fixes 2.1.5 01/23/2017 - In-app purchase compatibility was corrected - Several bug fixes 2.1 11/07/2016 Version 2.0 NEW FEATURES: - The users can now create real artworks with all the calligraphic tools. - To do so, a full page is provided with layers and backgrounds. - All artworks can be saved into the app gallery. - The gallery is organized by blocks, each block contains an unlimited number of pages. - Artworks and blocks can be exported and shared in png or pdf to the device's camera roll or Dropbox account. - Closed forms can be filled with colors and patterns. Improvements for iOS 10. 2.0 10/21/2016 Version 1.4: - 24 hours free test instead of 1 hour. - Apple Pencil enhancement - Several bugs were fixed 1.4 03/17/2016 Version 1.3: Auto feed paper when drawing letters near the right edge of the screen. This feature works great with calligraphy training lessons. 1.3 04/22/2015 Version 1.2.5: Several bugs fixed 1.2.5 05/25/2014 Version 1.2: - Introduces a new exclusive feature: tracing words. The unique new tool works like a keyboard: first, enter your text by tapping on the letters. Second, trace the letters and words with your favourite pens and colors, draw some extra decorations. Third, second your greeting text without the shadowed letters. Impress your friends right away ! - Localization in French - Fixed tiny bugs 1.2 04/15/2014 Version 1.0.1: - Several minor bugs fixed - More options for in-app purchases 1.0.1 04/02/2014 1.0 03/21/2014

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Previous Versions

Here you can find the changelog of Calligraphy Handbook since it was posted on our website on 2016-12-25 12:23:22. The latest version is 3.8 and it was updated on 2026-10-16 15:36:52. See below the changes in each version.

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