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    Beit Yosef Script: Jen Taylor Friedman, 2008

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    This document provides instructions for writing letters in the Beit Yosef script style, including: - Learning basic strokes and techniques like verticals, horizontals, and curves to build letter forms. - How to construct specific letters like beit, resh, vav, mem, tet, zayin, het, dalet, nun, tav, and bent peh using combinations of straight lines, curves, and fine-lining techniques. - Additional details and variations are described for letters like yud, khaf, kuf, aleph, shin, tzaddi, and yud's foot to achieve different styles within the script.

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    This document provides instructions for writing letters in the Beit Yosef script style, including: - Learning basic strokes and techniques like verticals, horizontals, and curves to build letter forms. - How to construct specific letters like beit, resh, vav, mem, tet, zayin, het, dalet, nun, tav, and bent peh using combinations of straight lines, curves, and fine-lining techniques. - Additional details and variations are described for letters like yud, khaf, kuf, aleph, shin, tzaddi, and yud's foot to achieve different styles within the script.

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    This document provides instructions for writing letters in the Beit Yosef script style, including: - Learning basic strokes and techniques like verticals, horizontals, and curves to build letter forms. - How to construct specific letters like beit, resh, vav, mem, tet, zayin, het, dalet, nun, tav, and bent peh using combinations of straight lines, curves, and fine-lining techniques. - Additional details and variations are described for letters like yud, khaf, kuf, aleph, shin, tzaddi, and yud's foot to achieve different styles within the script.

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    Beit Yosef Script: Jen Taylor Friedman, 2008

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    This document provides instructions for writing letters in the Beit Yosef script style, including: - Learning basic strokes and techniques like verticals, horizontals, and curves to build letter forms. - How to construct specific letters like beit, resh, vav, mem, tet, zayin, het, dalet, nun, tav, and bent peh using combinations of straight lines, curves, and fine-lining techniques. - Additional details and variations are described for letters like yud, khaf, kuf, aleph, shin, tzaddi, and yud's foot to achieve different styles within the script.

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    Beit Yosef script

    This sheet is intended to be used in conjunction with the laws of letter forms as
    given by the Mishnah Berurah in Mishnat Soferim.
    Verticals and horizontals: learn to make rectangles with clean lines and neat
    corners; four rightangles. !et a feel for the effect of "en angle on your rectangles.
    !et into the habit of "ulling your "en# not "ushing it.
    Basic letter beit: joining vertical and horizontal strokes in a controlled way. !et a feel
    for letter "ro"ortion. $emember never to "ush your "en. %ver.
    &urves. $eish: a smooth curve from a horizontal line to a vertical line. 'traight khaf:
    same# but learn to control when you turn. Vav: learn to turn early and control when
    you sto".
    (n the ideal world# vav has an e)tra vertical stroke inside the leg# so that the outside
    of the corner is a curve and the inside is a rightangle.
    &losed mem: an e)ercise in sto""ing. *earn to bring a horizontal into an e)isting
    vertical to make a neat join# without overshooting.
    +"ward curves; a smooth stroke from horizontal to vertical.
    Bent khaf: joining a downward curve to an u"ward curve# as for closed mem; such
    that the join doesn,t show. 'amekh and straight "eh: same idea# different
    configurations.
    -ine lines. *earn to use the "oint of the nib# ti""ed u" sideways# as a very
    small "en# to "ull ink out of a letter while it is still wet and sha"e it into lines.
    .ow you can use this skill to give beit its two corners# its tag# and its heel. /ou can
    also attach a vav to a bent khaf and adorn the vav# to give lamed.
    -ine lines also give you a method of making the curves on the righthand sides of
    letters. /ou need it for yud; you may choose to use it also for bent khaf.
    Tilted vav is made like a regular vav# but with the nib at a stee" angle to the line#
    rather than "er"endicular to it# and without the rightangle inside the corner.
    Tilted vav# a sort of s0uarefooted khaf# and a fine line will give you o"en mem.
    &ombining a neat rectangle# a neat vertical# a stroke starting at an angle to the line#
    a righthandside curve# and some fine lines gives you tet. .ote the relative heights
    of the taggin: from left to right low# high# medium.
    1arallelograms: symmetric legs. 1en angle is the key here. 'ymmetric leg skills give
    you zayin.
    2en Taylor -riedman# 3445.
    6ne can also make a symmetric leg with two strokes. This is useful for straight nun.
    7ayin 8 fine lines 9 basic het.
    (deally# het,s to"right corner is rounded. This uses the same curve techni0ue as for
    yud.
    Bent khaf 8 zayin 9 kuf.
    :symmetric legs. There are several o"tions for asymmetric legs. &hoose one you
    like and use that. -or instance# one can use a symmetric leg at an angle# use curve
    techni0ues to construct a less symmetric leg# or rotate the nib during the stroke to
    create a wedge.
    &learly# this gives dalet. : variety of dalets.
    ;hich leads to hey and gimel.
    -ine control: nun
    'imilar techni0ue: tav
    More fine control: bent "eh.
    Tilted yud: sha"e with nib "oint.
    (n different configurations and with greater or lesser involvement of other skills# will
    give you straight tzaddi# shin and ale"h.
    :yin,s foot is made with at least two strokes. 'tart at the bottom and "ull it u"wards.
    'u"erfine control: bent tzaddi.
    2en Taylor -riedman# 3445.

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