Claudio Garibaldi
Samples 33 & 34, types Eight and Nine. The Nine’s HW is slow, curvy, with few dynamic movements and a lack of tension. The pressure can be strong but not as differentiated compared to the Eight’s. Nines do not often express their aggressiveness; they prefer to compromise. We can see that by the small difference between the rising and the descending strokes—this too is a form of laziness. The Eight’s HW is more energetic and appears to cut through the graphic space with ass...

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