Round curves. Only one possible form.
Straight strokes. Also a single form — this is how Japan writes names from abroad.
Thousands of characters, each one with its own meaning. Many of them are read «Amanda»: none of them is the correct one.
That is where a person has to choose, not a translator: a Japanese calligrapher who has already written the names of more than 500 people by hand, on the street, one by one.
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Your name carries the meaning of having an overflowing love and being loved by everyone, filling up completely like the full moon, and a great and generous presence.
Your name carries the meaning of putting color into everything you touch, taking in what cannot be counted, and caring for what is small and clean like a drop of water.
Your name carries the meaning of the pattern of figured silk, what stretches out long and unhurried, and the small, clean drop of water.
Your name carries the meaning of the clean shine of clear crystal, filling up completely like the full moon, and the small, clean drop of water.
Your name carries the meaning of carrying color and liveliness, stretching out long and unhurried, and a great and generous presence.
Your name carries the meaning of opening like the apricot blossom that runs ahead of spring, filling up completely like the full moon, and keeping only what is worth keeping.
Your name carries the meaning of carrying a deep blue with you, taking in what cannot be counted, and the small, clean drop of water.
did you like it more than you expected?
☕ buy me a coffeeEverything above is drawn by a typeface: a thousand Amandas, the same stroke. Not this one. The calligrapher dips the brush and writes yours a single time — the ink opens where it opens, the stroke breaks where it breaks.



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Your name printed on what you use every day. We do not sell the shirt: we give you the file and you take it to your printer.
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