GRIDZ Home Page at Aalphabet City

24 layout grids and 6 projects for you to print on your choice of papers,
heavyweight stocks, translucent sheets, or transparency sheets.
For calligraphy, hand-drawn letters, borders, illuminations, Celtic knotwork,
paper crafts, needlepoint, and many other projects.

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Grids for Envelopes, Ornaments, 5, 6, & 8 point Stars,
Circles, Boxes, and more.
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Curved grids for Certificates, Awards & Diplomas
Titles & Headings, and Banners & Signs.
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Grids for Italics, Copperplate, and Brush letters,
for designing Greeting Cards, Invitations, & Announcements.
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Standard square grid for simple layouts, Borders, Celtic knotwork,
and various styles of Illumination.
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GRIDZ will make layout easier for all your projects and practice.
There is nothing else available like this set of layout grids - anywhere.
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Click here to view small versions of the grids themselves.
Each small sample has a small window magnified
to show the grid structure in more detail.
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Layout grids included on the disc.

01 8x8 Standard Grid 02 05 deg Italic 03 10 deg Italic 04 15 deg Italic 05 20 deg Italic / Copperplate 06 25 deg Copperplate 07 30 deg Copperplate 08 35 deg Copperplate 09 40 deg Copperplate 10 20 in Radius Arcs 11 40 in Radius Arcs 12 30 deg center 13 40 deg center 14 Circle 8 15 Out-In Spiral 8		16 Out-In Spiral 4 17 In-Out Spiral 8 18 In-Out Spiral 4 19 Radials 1 12 2-5 deg 20 Radials 2 24 1 deg 21 Pentagon · 5-point stars 22 Hexagon · 6-point stars 23 Octagon · 8-point stars 24 Chinese/Japanese Brush 25 Personal Envelope 1 26 Personal Envelope 2 27 Personal Envelope 3 28 Business Envelope 1 29 Petal Envelope 1 30 Cube or Box

*Five pages of introduction and examples are included too.*

  •  GRIDZ is a package of layout aids developed by a calligrapher and lettering artist with more than 40 years interest in hand-drawn and hand-written letters. Originally developed for my personal use, they were later released in printed form.

  •  Now updated with twice the layout options, they are being re-released. You can now print them on the paper you like to use for your design work and practice. Now includes six projects for use and practice.

  •  The goal is to allow for a much broader range of projects without the normal time spent in preliminary layout of projects. If some spacing change was desired all that layout time was simply lost as the entire layout must be done again.

  •  If a particular style of heading was chosen for a certificate or an award special tools might also be needed - and even more time spent on layout. The layout would need to be done over if there was some variation desired.

  •  Using layout grids allows you to experiment with layouts, to freely change layouts, to incorporate a variety of styles into a single project. And to do so with much less time spent on the work before the work – tedium.

  •  Without the tedium associated with layout and changing layouts you are free to broaden the range of lettering styles you want to learn, and to let your imagination feed your creativity.

  •  All the grids included here are presented in Portable Document Format ( pdf ) for ease of printing on a wide range of printers using either a PC or a Mac. Using PDFs allows you to magnify each page of the introduction for easier reading on your monitor.

  •  You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print these pages. It is a free program you may already have. If you do not have it - I have included it on this disc for you.

  •  Watch for how-tos, new examples, projects, and maybe even some special grids for you to print - right here on the website.      www.calligraphya2z.com

Enjoy your GRIDZ

For hobbyists and professionals alike.