About Sagey Strokes
Sagey Strokes is a reference for calligraphy and letterforms. It does not sell copybooks and it does not run courses. It does one thing: take the brush actions of Chinese regular script, Chinese running script and Western pointed-pen copperplate apart, stroke by stroke, and write them down as numbers you can check.
Who writes this
The site is maintained by people who practise with a Chinese brush and with a pointed pen. Every figure in an article — a length ratio, a pressure distribution, a cell size, an x-height — comes from writing and measuring rather than from copying another textbook. Where other sources say "write it beautifully", we try to say "26 mm cells" or "the foot of the 捺 peaks at 6.2 units" instead.
How the content is organised
There are two record types. A glyph entry covers one stroke or one letterform: stroke order, the start-travel-finish action of each stroke, the faults that show up on a finished page, and the proportions actually used in the 120-unit drawing box. A worksheet entry is the specification for a printable practice sheet: cell size, rows and columns, margins, paper weight, printing notes, and how one sheet is meant to be filled.
The index is not chronological. The front page is a grid: Latin forms sit in the A–Z zone, Chinese characters in the radical zone, and each cell is an ink sample of that glyph. Clicking one opens the entry.
About the illustrations
Every illustration on the site is a parametric SVG generated at build time from the stroke geometry stored with the entry. Each centre line and each width profile is data, not a traced outline. That means a plate can be regenerated rather than resized: change a cell from 26 mm to 28 mm and the plate is drawn again. Stroke-order plates are frame sequences — frame n shows strokes one to n, the newest stroke in solid ink with its entry point marked in vermilion.
Scope
The site covers technique and dimensions only. It does not appraise calligraphy, authenticate rubbings, price materials, or offer personal health advice. If you have wrist or hand pain from long writing sessions, see a professional.
Contact
Questions, corrections and commissions: [email protected].