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 «Jessica»: 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 treating other people with warmth, sharing out what you have, following the path you chose yourself, and opening the way a flower opens.
Your name carries the meaning of keeping the instant that never comes back, shining with the transparency of crystal, looking at the world the way a poet looks at it, and letting it come out sung.
Your name carries the meaning of treating other people with warmth, looking at the world the way a poet looks at it, and opening the way a flower opens.
Your name carries the meaning of keeping the instant that never comes back, following the path you chose yourself, and leaving behind a perfume people recognize.
Your name carries the meaning of treating other people with warmth, standing out wherever you are, carrying the purple of what is noble, and leaving behind a perfume people recognize.
Your name carries the meaning of keeping the instant that never comes back, keeping hold of the thread that ties you to your people, and shining with a splendid radiance.
Your name carries the meaning of keeping the instant that never comes back, looking after the encounters life brings you, keeping hold of the thread that ties you to your people, and gathering goodness and beauty together.
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☕ buy me a coffeeEverything above is drawn by a typeface: a thousand Jessicas, 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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