Paper size: 8.5" wide x 11" high
Orientation: portrait or landscape
Paper color: white layout
Nib: Speedball C-2, Hiro Tape 2mm, or Brause 2mm
Ink color: Black
Margins: artist's choice
Justification: flush left
x-height (body height): between 3 and 5 pen widths
a-height (ascender): 2-4 pen widths
d-depth (descender): 2-4 pen widths(i.e. a-2/x-3/d-2 or a-3/x-4/d-3 or a-4/x-5/d-4)
Line spacing: artist's choice pen widths (i.e. interlinear space between descender and next ascender)
Choose one of these quotes, or both if you wish:
#1: Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. (Rumi)
#2: Be the one who points out what is going right and helps out what is going wrong.