Copperplate

Calligraphy
“minuscule” aka lowercase letters in Copperplate script

Worksheet
Thanks for downloading this worksheet for learning and practicing
Copperplate Calligraphy! Improving your writing is a lifelong practice, and I
am excited to be a part of your journey. I’d love to see any progress and if
you’d like to share, tag me on instagram @skybluejenny. Happy writing!

materials
This worksheet may be used with
any thin writing instrument, such
as a ballpoint pen or pencil. If you’re
looking to achieve the highest
amount of contrast with your
strokes, or very thick down strokes
and thin up strokes, use a pen or felt
marker that has some flex to it.
If you’d like to invest in calligraphy
tools, I recommend:
• for righties: an oblique nib holder
to maintain the 30° slant (H129)
• for lefties: a straight nib holder
(the one linked does both)
• a Nikko G nib with an Ink Cage
Reservoir to hold more ink (N204)
• Moon Palace Sumi Ink (I70)
• small cup for submerging your
nib into ink
You can find all the materials via
skyblue.link/JNbooks
printing
To get the best use of this
worksheet, make sure you’re printing
on paper where your writing utensils
won’t bleed or scratch through. I
recommend HP Premium 32, 8.5x 11
size paper, but you should definitely
experiment with paper you already
have on hand. You’d be surprised
what works.
posture
Give yourself the proper posture
while writing where both feet are
planted on the floor, and your non-
dominant hand is supporting you on
the table. This frees up your writing
hand for calligraphy practice.
using the worksheet 1
After going through the whole
worksheet, feel free to print out any
page multiple times as you need it. I
suggest also focusing primarily on
improving consistency on the basic
strokes on page 2.

Copperplate Calligraphy Worksheet by Sky Blue Jenny­  _  “practice makes permanent” © Jenny Famularcano 2020
2nd ascender
thin upstrokes
1st ascender lightly “kiss” the tip of your pen for these upstrokes

x-height

baseline
thick downstrokes
1st descender Try to maintain even, solid pressure the drilling basic strokes
whole way down the stroke. print out this page regularly
2nd descender to improve your basic strokes
and improve your letterforms.

2a
underturn strokes overturn strokes
1a start with heavy pressure, start with light pressure, turn BEFORE adding pressure in
BEFORE you go back up, lighten pressure the downstroke
x

1d

2d
slanted beauties
heavy strokes are always
parallel to the 30° slant line
2a
compound curves ovals
1a start with light pressure, trace the slant line with heavy I like to start at 1:30 o’clock with a thin, before going into
pressure, before transitioning back into light pressure the downstroke by travelling counter clockwise
x

b
You can also start at 12 o’clock with
1d heavy pressure.

2d

2a
descending stem loops
1a start with heavy pressure at the x-height, maintain pressure until the 2nd de-
scende before relieving pressure and connecting to the bottom of the baseline
x

b
ascending stem loops
1d start with light pressure at the x-height, loop all the way to the 2nd ascender,
before adding pressure while tracing the slant line all the way to the baseline
2d

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 lowercase a
combining basic strokes into letters
2nd ascender
Trace the letter in the order of the numbers with your pen, before
practicing on your own. All lowercase letters are comprised of the
1st ascender
basic strokes on page 2.

x-height

baseline

1st descender

2nd descender

lowercase b
2a

1a

1d

2d

lowercase c
2a

1a

1d

2d

lowercase d
2a

1a

1d

2d

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 lowercase e
2nd ascender

1st ascender

x-height

baseline

1st descender

2nd descender

lowercase f
2a

1a

1d

2d

lowercase g
2a

1a

1d

2d

lowercase h
2a

1a

1d

2d

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 lowercase i
2nd ascender

1st ascender

x-height

baseline

1st descender

2nd descender

lowercase j
2a

1a

1d

2d

lowercase k
2a

1a

1d

2d

lowercase l
2a

1a

1d

2d

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 lowercase m
2nd ascender

1st ascender

x-height

baseline

1st descender

2nd descender

lowercase n
2a

1a

1d

2d

lowercase o
2a

1a

1d

2d

lowercase p
2a

1a

1d

2d

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 lowercase q
2nd ascender

1st ascender

x-height

baseline

1st descender

2nd descender

lowercase r
2a

1a

1d

2d

lowercase s
2a

1a

1d

2d

lowercase t
2a

1a

1d

2d

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 lowercase u
2nd ascender

1st ascender

x-height

baseline

1st descender

2nd descender

lowercase v
2a

1a

1d

2d

lowercase w
2a

1a

1d

2d

lowercase x
2a

1a

1d

2d

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 lowercase y
2nd ascender

1st ascender

x-height

baseline

1st descender

2nd descender

lowercase z
2a

1a

1d

2d

2a

1a

1d

2d

2a

1a

1d

2d

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2nd ascender

1st ascender

x-height

baseline

1st descender

2nd descender

2a

1a

1d

2d

2a

1a

1d

2d

2a

1a

1d

2d

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