30 Beautiful Calligraphy GIFs You Can’t Stop Watching

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It’s very rare to find nice handwriting nowadays. It’s even rarer to find someone who’s well-versed in the art of calligraphy. Gone are the days when notebooks looked less like a bunch of pages written in Morse Code and more like eye candy. This is understandable, in a way; with how far technology has come, touch-typing makes it possible to type out thoughts and important notes faster than if one were to write it down. Handwriting has become a lost art.

The good news is that there are still creatives peeps out there who are keeping the "ancient" the craft of beautiful manual writing alive. Cursive writing, typography, and calligraphy are turning into beautiful works of art. And for the rest of us, we get to enjoy their masterful display of great penmanship. Here are 30 gifs for your enjoyment, and I promise you – it’s difficult to stop watching.

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Thick creamy precision
IMAGE: KevlarYarmulke
Magical sparkles
IMAGE: captainchi
Simply beautiful stuff
IMAGE: terribleatkaraoke
Aesthetically pleasing
IMAGE: caligrafand0
Fountain pens are awesome
IMAGE: Sadaffairs
Markers are great too
IMAGE: 52358
The bare minimum
IMAGE: GQMike
Tough gangster
IMAGE: KevlarYarmulke
Succinct satisfaction
IMAGE: seanwes
Primal pleasure
IMAGE: arnielsAdumbration
An epiphany of beauty
IMAGE: cmoertw
Chinese calligraphy – origin story
IMAGE: Gelu6713
Stunning even in black and white
IMAGE: calligifphy
You don’t have to understand it
IMAGE: captainchi
Each piece seems to tell its own story
IMAGE: Doc_Faust
Calligraphy is an experience
IMAGE: calligifphy
Practice calligraphy on your computer too
IMAGE: breakno
Bending beauty
IMAGE: Calligraphy by Sam
Wet and Wild
IMAGE: calligifphy
Finger font makers
IMAGE: calligifphy
This gif sums it up perfectly
IMAGE: legaljellybeans
Beautiful love-lettering
IMAGE: calligifphy
Emeralds don’t have to be green
IMAGE: calligifphy
Golden Glittery ink makes it better
IMAGE: calligifphy
“Hero”
IMAGE: Daphne
Made you look
IMAGE: Daphne

IMAGE: Daphne

Don’t you wish you could calligraph like this?
IMAGE: calligifphy

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