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Stunt Roman
A refined yet playful Roman letterform with a cheerful and spirited character.
Stunt Roman
Introduced in the Speedball Textbook 1929, Ross George’s Stunt Roman is a refined yet playful Roman letterform with a cheerful and spirited characteristic. Stunt Roman uses the essential elements of formal roman caps and their corresponding minuscule letters.
You'll learn the characteristics and tools that contributed to the look of this hand. Randall demonstrates the unique alphabet using the Speedball C-4 and C-5 pens, sharing subtle pen manipulation and pressure and release techniques. The forms can be modified during the act of lettering depending on what comes before or after. Learning this style will teach invaluable skills that will translate towards lettering many other broad-edged styles.
The Stunt Roman course includes a full color multi-page pdf handout with myriad examples, and downloadable PDFs for all examples and alphabets demonstrated. The duration of this class is more than 2 hours.
This Stunt Roman course contains over 2 hours of content. Scroll down to view curriculum and watch preview movies.
Getting Started & Handouts
Stunt Roman includes a color PDF with the exemplars for lowercase and capitals plus variations. If you’re new to calligraphy, there is a section on materials, as well as some tips for filling your nib with ink. The materials needed are minimal: Speedball C-4 and C-5 nibs, a gridded pad, and a supply of a free-flowing ink (view Materials List).
Ross George's Stunt Roman
Introduced in the Speedball Textbook 1929 to the professional lettering community, Ross George’s Stunt Roman has wonderful potential for calligraphers today. We'll take a look at how this hand originated, the sources and influences that played a part in its look and style, and how it came into culture through the companies that developed into a digital font.
Lowercase Letters and Alternates
This section takes you through the basic letterform in the minuscule or lowercase letters. The alphabet is presented in letter groups so that you can practice with letters that have similar characteristics, followed by writing the full alphabet from A to Z. You’ll also learn about when and where to use alternate letterforms, so that you can adapt your letters in the course of writing words and sentences.
Stunt Roman Capitals
After a discussion about how the capitals were adapted to match the miniscules, Randall writes alphabet sentences and talks about putting all these forms together.
You'll learn about the adaptability of Stunt Roman, and the ability to not only vary your letterforms individually, but also the possibilities of unique letter combinations and overlapping forms that ultimately create a lively texture on the page.
Why choose Courses from the Hasson Studio?
A superior quality, informative presentation is the highest priority in Randall’s Course offerings.
He has a focus on the WHY of his subject matter. Each course has detailed introductions with history and background, information on materials, and skill session videos geared towards your learning style. Short videos allow a more focused concentration, while longer presentations can give a greater overview for those who learn better that way.
Features of these Online Courses
Lifetime access allows you to learn at your own pace.
Classes are ready to begin as soon as your payment is processed.
- Classes are prerecorded, allowing you to watch on your own schedule
- Videos are recorded in High Definition video with multiple camera angles
- Videos are paced for the artist; unnecessary pauses and wasted time are edited out.
- Copious handouts, resources, or detailed materials videos are included with each course.
- Lifetime access for individual courses and for multiple class bundles.
We also recommend adding Randall's Live Session Replays
This offering includes 24 presentations given for participants in his courses. These sessions include Randall's topical lectures, projects, questions and answers. Live Session Replays are posted so new students can catch the ones they missed, and a private Facebook Group allows you to comment, share your work, and get inspired.
The small bites make the courses easier for those who do not have 2 or 3 hours of dedicated time, and the way they are organized – the detail, the illustrations, the instruction, the excellent quality of the sessions – helps everyone to grasp the content more completely.
Course Curriculum
Randall Hasson
Randall M. Hasson is an artist, calligrapher, instructor and speaker who has appeared on the faculty of over 25 Arts, Lettering Arts, and Educational Conferences in the United States, Canada and England. He is the author of articles on a variety of Art or Lettering Art related subjects and has appeared as a mainstage presenter and/or teacher with lecture topics covering Public Art, Art History, the Painting Process, Collaborative Art Projects, and the History of Writing including the recent invention of the ADLaM Alphabet in West Africa.
In 2015, he co-edited of the 24th (Centennial) Edition of The Speedball Textbook. In addition to a series of online workshops called Writing with a Bent Nib, Randall is currently writing and designing his forthcoming book Teaching America How to Letter – The Speedball Story, a history of commercial lettering and American show card writing in the 1900’s.
