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out of curiosity, not sure if anyone asked this before but what’s your head canon on Ben Solo’s calligraphy style would be?

ms-camucia:

reylocalligraphy:

ms-camucia:

reylocalligraphy:

Oooo, this is such an excellent question! Hmm.

I think Ben would do very traditional cursive calligraphy (copperplate) because 1) he would have the resources to buy the expensive pen necessary for it, 2) copperplate cursive gives you a lot of power in doing extra, super dramatic flourishes (hey! doesn’t that sound like the Skywalkers), 3) and it ends up looking SUPER pretty!

I’ve never been able to do proper copperplate because I don’t have the right pen for it, but this is something close to it (taken from the calligraphy I did for a poem from @avidvampirehunter‘s Glory’s Fray):

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Thank you for your wonderful ask @wicked-lover!

All right, I have put way too much thought into this, because of course I have. For starters, I completely agree with @reylocalligraphy on the copperplate cursive – for High Galactic! Star Wars has several alphabets, High Galactic being English, for all intents and purposes.

However, after seeing the calligraphy kit as indicated by the visual dictionary, I’m more inclined to believe he does a lot of more Eastern-style calligraphy with those brushes – long a tradition of both a master swordsman and typographer.

Big brushes like that aren’t as great for English calligraphy, so what else is there? Famously, there’s Aurebesh in Star Wars, what most people think of as the “Star Wars font:”

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This angular style of type is about as calligraphy-unfriendly as one can imagine. And trust me – I’ve tried.

My suspicion is that Ben would do calligraphy in Corellian – specifically because of this comment from one of the TLJ books:

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I mean, COME ON. Why else would he make this SPECIFIC REQUEST if not to connect it the WEIRDLY SPECIFIC CALLIGRAPHY SET?

So I’ve played with that alphabet a bit, and indeed it does lend itself well to calligraphy. I might go and make a proper font out of this, since I’m doing this all with vectors and I am nothing if not a typography nerd.

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Wow. Wow. Wow.

This is the official answer, let’s wrap it up and go home. Love your analysis @ms-camucia !!!

Aaaaaand I just had the heartbreaking realization that maybe Han got Ben to paint “Property of Han Solo” on the escape pod in the first place, you know, just to give his weirdo young son something to do. Probably gave him some Aurebesh stencils or whatever, thinking he’d just spray it on there. He comes back to see this ludicrous Corellian calligraphy across it instead, and probably slowly shakes his head.