Lefty Brush™ is the culmination of many hours (and months) of writing trying to capture the essence of a brush urban calligraphy from a lefty point of view, but at the same time, being easy to apply in more contexts and, long story sort, (hopefully) being more “usable” than just another display font. That is exactly why is loaded with ligatures, contextual and stylistic alternates (and more options to come), plus fancy symbols and scripts so it “feels” like real writing.
– The ultimate urban left-handed brush font –
As a left-handed lettering and calligraphy designer, I had to deal with frustration many times during my career. You have to face the fact that 98% of the calligraphy books or learning content (as well as writing tradition) has been made and taught for and to right-handers, which in a way, makes sense (we’re a minority after all), but it’s not cool and not fair for us (lefties).
This font was born as a result of that struggle and to try to reflect how our strokes might not look exactly as they are supposed to look, according to tradition, but they still rock!
But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure