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Inspirational Drop Caps

aily Drop Cap by Jessica Hische is a wonderful and inspiring project that I just discovered this week. Since September 25 of this year, she has been illustrating and posting a new initial everyday. The best part is, she's generously licensed the work under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works, which means we are free to share the work as long as we attribute it properly and don't sell it or otherwise use her work commercially. But adding a gorgeously illustrated drop cap to our blogs? That's exactly what they're there, "for the beautification of blog posts everywhere," she writes on her site devoted to this project, dailydropcap.com.

If you want to learn more about Jessica Hische's artwork, visit her website at jessicahische.com. (Don't miss the tutorial on her blog on hand lettering if you're interested in drawing your own type—as I am.)

Happy Drop-Capping!

(P.S. Maybe this project will spark a loooooonnnngggg-overdue redesign of my blog! Crossing my fingers! Or I suppose I should uncross them and get coding!)