Calligraphic Menagerie Notecard Set

The more instant and automated our world becomes, the more special a handwritten note starts to feel. With that in mind, we’re resolving to make our correspondences a little more thoughtful in the new year with our Calligraphic Menagerie Notecard Set. Harkening back to a time when calligraphy was king, each card in this twenty-piece set features a fanciful, hand-drawn animal, sourced from the graphic design center Letterform Archive’s collection of historic writing manuals. Once upon a time, Europe’s leading scribes showed off their quill skills in these instructive books, sometimes branching out from lettering to use those same fluid, curling lines to sketch elegant, expressive creatures, like the cats, dogs, horses, elephants, dragonflies, swans, fish, lions and peacocks found here. Featuring artwork from famed calligraphers like Jan van de Velde, John Seddon and Joseph Friedrich Leopold, each card in this set reimagines one of these hand-drawn animals in a bright hue on a colorful contrasting background and comes ready to send with a corresponding envelope. Housed in a beautiful foil-stamped box, these notecards are the perfect way to step up your own snail mail game — or would make a great gift to an animal-loving pen pal! •set of twenty unique A2 blank cards and envelopes •metallic rainbow foil-stamped box •artwork sourced from the collection of Letterform Archive Dimensions •cards: 4.25" x 5.5" •gift box: 6.5"W x 5"D x 2"H