With the term calligraphy refers to that art of writing using beautiful signs for the formation of letters and words. It is considered an art because calligraphy selects the most expressive, elegant and harmonious signs to convey a written message and thus make it more visual and more interesting in the eyes of the person who reads it, in addition to being absolutely legible of course.
And on the other hand, the word calligraphy is also used to designate the set of features that characterize a person's writing. For example, the extremely rounded or the point of the i in the shape of a large circle are some of the characteristics that can distinguish someone's way of writing and allow recognition even among many calligraphies.
According to scholars of the subject, the origins of calligraphy can be found in thousands of years ago, approximately in the year 2600 BC and in China, a culture that historically has always placed great value on everything that has to do with writing and calligraphy. Even such fascination can be seen in much of the visual beauty presented by the ideograms that make up a good part of this community's writing.
Although in the East calligraphy continues to maintain its strong mark, after the invention of the press in Gutenberg's hands, calligraphy lost much ground and importance, gaining that spatial typography. Not to mention the place that was later taken, first the pen and then the typewriters and computers, which made calligraphy less and less recurrent in our daily lives.
Anyway, not everything is lost and for some, calligraphy continues to be an art and to continue making efforts to keep it alive and present today even if “others” have copied the stop. You can continue to contemplate calligraphy in our environment through the logos of some companies, on the labels of many products, among others.
Among the most common types of calligraphy are: calligraphy composed of Arabic characters, Chinese calligraphy, Western calligraphy, and Japanese calligraphy or shodo.