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Post by MrAndersen on Oct 19, 2015 17:49:24 GMT
I've heard some people don't like when the writing is visible through the envelope. I think those people are wrong, it's the most gorgeous thing ever!
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Post by Chris on Oct 19, 2015 18:42:38 GMT
It doesn't bother me, personally, though I do somewhat prefer that it not show through so much as to be easily legible.
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Post by ladytiger7647 on Oct 19, 2015 18:47:47 GMT
You handwriting makes it even more gorgeous. I almost fainted when I saw your beautiful handwriting.
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Post by sharmon202 on Oct 19, 2015 21:28:59 GMT
Easily legible maybe not a good idea but it adds interest, unusual in a letter, especially to others like delivery or post office folk.
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Post by MrAndersen on Oct 20, 2015 1:27:13 GMT
I think you may have been hitting the Brontë sisters a little too hard today, but thank you . My handwriting is a work in progress, I only recently decided I wanted to learn how to write in a manner actually legible to other people. I agree that being plainly readable could be problematic in some cases. In practice though, with the sheets folded around the text, what you'll be seeing from the outside is back-to-front, blurred writing, which is pretty hard to decipher. On very thin paper and with very thin envelopes you can usually see through the first layer, so in effect you get several layers of writing stacked up. Not at all easy to get anything out of other than the odd capital letter, but still easily recognizable as lines of text. I can't really put my finger on why I think that adds so much, but it just looks warm and neat. Like the antithesis to bank letters and bills. I don't know, it just catches my eye every time I seal an envelope.
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Post by kansaskyle on Oct 20, 2015 2:58:10 GMT
I don't really have a preference. I'm just happy to get something that isn't a bill or advertisement!
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Post by thatauthor on Nov 15, 2015 22:14:36 GMT
I don't care too much for the see-through so I've been using those business envelopes with the blue mottled pattern on the inside to mask the contents as SOP for years now. I also got an insane number of these type of envelopes from Costco for $9 or something like that. Its kind of boring but I haven't been one to get too creative with the envelopes.
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Post by MKB on Jan 11, 2016 7:12:39 GMT
If you really like show through, just for fun I made an envelope out of Tomoe River paper for a letter that I sent to my brother. I wasn't sure it would survive, but it did.
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Post by MrAndersen on Jan 11, 2016 7:18:47 GMT
If you really like show through, just for fun I made an envelope out of Tomoe River paper for a letter that I sent to my brother. I wasn't sure it would survive, but it did. I regularly do just that. It is indeed very durable for its weight, and makes great envelopes.
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Post by ladytiger7647 on Jan 11, 2016 22:15:57 GMT
If you really like show through, just for fun I made an envelope out of Tomoe River paper for a letter that I sent to my brother. I wasn't sure it would survive, but it did. I regularly do just that. It is indeed very durable for its weight, and makes great envelopes. You just want the postal workers to swoon over your handwriting. Admit it!
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Post by MrAndersen on Jan 12, 2016 0:43:23 GMT
I'd really rather they didn't. Can you imagine the lawsuits!
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