Book: The Romitalic Book
A Study in Developing a Personalized Letterform
Romitalic is a full color print version of the pdf handout book that comes with Randall's online Romitalic course
Randall Hasson's latest, detailed, printed handout book about the inspiration that leads to the creation of lettering! From his online course of the same name, you'll see how to analyze the characteristics of a letterform that you like, and get ideas about how make it your own personal style.
Randall's process yeilded a personalized letterform from which a soft, rounded, lyrical Italic evolved. Romitalic contains exemplars for lowercase, capitals, and variations, and also details the lettering styles that formed the initial inspiration for the hand.
48 Pages; Full color
Coil Bound
Shipping by Media Mail
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.
