Calligraphy and lettering — find a calligrapher for handwritten work
Custom calligraphy means hand-addressed invitations and envelopes, lettering on a café wall, a hand-lettered logo or a font made from your handwriting. Describe what needs writing and how much, and calligraphers will send responses. Or choose one by portfolio style, prices and client reviews.
Calligraphers and lettering artists
How much custom calligraphy costs
What affects the price
Number of envelopes and cards
The price is usually set per envelope, card or name, so the total cost depends on quantity. Some calligraphers have a minimum order.
Style and complexity of the script
Modern script is quicker to write than classic copperplate with flourishes or blackletter, and gilding is a separate job.
Paper, ink and surface
Dark envelopes with white or gold ink, textured paper, wood, mirrors or glass need different materials and more time than a smooth white sheet.
Logo or wall lettering
A logo means sketches and vectorizing, while lettering on a wall or window is priced by area, working height and whether it is indoors or outdoors.
The font's character set
Cyrillic only or both alphabets, numerals, punctuation and several versions of each letter so the handwriting looks alive — these are different amounts of work.
Prices come from specialists' profiles on Nexperity and update automatically. You agree the final price with the specialist directly.
How to find a calligrapher
Two ways — pick the one that suits you
Pick a specialist yourself
- 1Open specialists' profiles and their work
- 2Send a request that describes the task
- 3Once accepted — contact the specialist directly
Post an order
- 1Describe the task, payment and the timing you want
- 2Receive responses from specialists
- 3Pick the best specialist and agree directly
- Free for clients
- Orders can be posted anonymously
- Your contacts open only after acceptance
- No commission on the deal
How to choose a calligrapher
- 1
Cyrillic in the portfolio
Many portfolios are mostly Latin script. Check for samples in Ukrainian: letters like ж, щ, ґ or ї with flourishes take a skill of their own.
- 2
A trial sample
Before a large order, ask for one name or line in the chosen style on your paper, and check whether the sample is paid.
- 3
Spare envelopes and cards
Ink cannot be erased, so a spoiled envelope or card has to be replaced. Ask the calligrapher how many spares to add to the main set.
- 4
Durability of wall lettering
For a wall or window, ask what they will write with: chalk marker washes off easily, while exterior paint lasts a long time. It matters if you plan to change the lettering.
- 5
Files and usage rights
Check that you will get the logo as a vector, not just a scan or photo, and the font as an installable file. Also ask whether you can use them in advertising and on products.
What to put in the order
What you need: addressing envelopes and cards, a lettered logo, wall lettering or a handwritten font
How many envelopes, cards or names, and the approximate length of each text
Script style and alphabet: classic copperplate, modern calligraphy, Cyrillic or Latin
What to write on: whether you already have paper and envelopes, the ink color; for a wall — its size and whether it is indoors or outdoors
Format: the calligrapher works at their own place, comes on site or works online
Payment and the day by which everything must be ready
Questions about Nexperity
How Nexperity works — separately for clients and for specialists
For clients
Nothing. Searching for specialists, sending requests, posting orders and receiving responses are free.
No. You agree the price and the payment method with the specialist and pay them directly. Nexperity does not take payments and is not a party to your deal.
A request goes to one specialist — from their profile. An order is posted for everyone: specialists send you responses, and you choose which one to accept.
How the specialist will do the task, a price — fixed, a range, hourly or “on request” — and, optionally, an estimated timeline.
30 days from publication: all that time it is visible in the feed and specialists can send responses. The exact end date and time are shown on the order in your account. From that moment the order is closed and a response can no longer be accepted. You can cancel it earlier, and if no specialist turned up, post a new one.
Yes: you can hide your name and photo in an order. The anonymity lasts until acceptance — the specialist whose response you accept sees your name and photo. The task description is public: anyone visiting the site can read it.
Only after acceptance — when you accept their response or they accept your request. And only the contacts you chose to show.
After acceptance you see the contacts the specialist chose to show, and they see the ones you chose. You can also message on Nexperity when the chat is on: on an order you decide that, on a direct request the specialist does.
Once the work is done, mark the order or the collaboration completed in your account — then you can say whether you recommend the specialist. A review can only be left for a collaboration that happened through Nexperity: one per specialist, which you can change or delete at any time.
For specialists
Nothing for now: this is the free period, and no subscription is needed yet. Nexperity takes no commission on deals — you settle with the client directly.
Sign up, fill in your specialist profile and add your services — each with a category, a description and a price. Once the profile is complete, it appears in search and on the category pages.
Two ways: clients send you requests from your profile, which you can accept or decline; and you see public orders in your categories in your account and can respond to them.
You describe how you will do the task and give a price and, optionally, a timeline. The client compares responses and accepts one.
Contacts set to “Public” are visible to everyone on your profile. A client sees contacts set to “After connection” once you accept their request or they accept your response. “Hidden” ones are not revealed in new connections: a contact already revealed to a client stays visible to them.
Each service has a fixed price, a range, an hourly rate or “on request”. Prices show on your profile and in search results, and you agree the final price with the client.
Through search and the category pages of your services. The order depends on your clients' reviews — how many of them recommend you — and in search also on how well your services match the query.
A photo, a description, your region and way of working — online or in person — your contacts and a portfolio: photos of your work, each with a short caption if you like.
A client leaves a review after completed work, and only for a collaboration through Nexperity: they say whether they recommend you and may add a few words. Each client counts once, however many times you work together.
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