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Calligraphy and Lettering can be learned and enjoyed by anyone who can write with a pen. A whole world of artistic enjoyment can grow out of a simple knowledge of the alphabet. A small amount of study can turn this into an absorbing passion, which follows the journey of writing through the course of history and turns the craft of the past into an art for the future.

Calligraphy & lettering today

Calligraphy and Lettering are serious artforms. Each can be thought of as the beauty of speech made visible through the art of the hand. Both can contribute to graphic design, typographic design, the book arts and signwork. The Calligraphy & Lettering Arts Society is open to anybody and everybody who enjoys calligraphy and lettering. CLAS extends a warm welcome to new members, whether old or young, beginner or expert.

Calligraphy is an enjoyable hobby which can even become your full-time career as an artist. It's never too late to learn, and never to soon to begin. The best way to make real progress is by joining the Calligraphy & Lettering Arts Society. Please look through these pages to discover more about calligraphy and lettering and about the real help you can get through the Society and its activities.

Writing and lettering are everywhere around us and are a very visual part of the fabric of our everyday lives. The study of writing and lettering and the practice and finest execution of its skills can be carried to the highest levels of art. The art and cultures of China, Japan and the Islamic world place the value of their calligraphy on the highest plane.

Historically, the Roman alphabet in the richness of its manifestations has a pedigree second to none. The origins go back into prehistory and ever since that amazing breakthrough into literacy, people have been getting and giving aesthetic pleasure by marrying their inventiveness and imagination with the limitless creative potential of the raw material, the letters of the alphabet. It is not only the content of the words but the way they have looked which has carried culture forwards.