![]() ![]() However, one has to admire the elegant swagger of the wavy t, h and l which the K-Type font extends to the b, f and k. The unconventional backslant of the headings would seem to support this contention, and at the end of the document there is perhaps a novice’s inconsistency in the structure of the letter n between that used for ‘done’ and those used for ‘In Witness’. “The manner in which the ‘Article’ headings are squeezed into the space Shallus allowed for them suggests a second hand-and perhaps not a very experienced one.” He also suggests that the calligraphic headings, ‘We the People’ and ‘Article’, may have been inserted by Shallus’s 14 year old trainee son, Francis, Shallus’s biographer, Arthur Plotnik ('The Man Behind the Quill', 1987), notes that he was paid $30, a modest monthly wage at the time. ![]() The original Constitution document was transcribed onto parchment by Jacob Shallus, a Pennsylvania Assistant Clerk, over a weekend in 1787. ![]() This typeface is extrapolated from the ‘We the People’ calligraphy of the handwritten US Constitution Preamble which employed a style based on German Text and Square Text exemplars from George Bickham’s penmanship copy-books, the most celebrated being 'The Universal Penman' published in 1743. ![]()
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