Here are a couple quick sketches for my "real" (private) journal. Reminds me of my "medieval period" in my twenties when I was performing Medieval music and doing blackletter calligraphy with illuminated initials. Lots of fun, but messy (compared to digital "calligraphy"). I still like this style very much, and have often thought I would eventually design a font that would make it easy to create initials like these in two or more colors. Lots of decisions to make, though: whether to replicate the early Medieval look as closely as possible, or do a "modern" interpretation, or something in between, etc. And, of course, then I'd need to design a Medieval-style text font to go with the initials, and so on. Let me know what you think. There's no point in putting hundreds of hours into a font if nobody is interested in using it. Well, I admit I usually design fonts just for the fun of it. But, it's still nice when people buy the finished product.

By the way, speaking of journals, if you want to see how beautiful and creative a journal can be, check out Carl Jung's "Red Book", his private journal which has finally been published after being locked away in a safe deposit box for decades: Amazon.com: The Red Book (9780393065671): C. G. Jung, Sonu Shamdasani, Mark Kyburz, John Peck: Books http://bit.ly/Tacv7