[split] Jorge's Retracer Thread: darker ink, retracing of text and drawings

[oshfdk]

The usual explanation for isolated dark glyphs or parts of glyphs in the middle of lighter ones, (and the occasional light ink poking out from under the dark one, like the infamous daiin on f1r)  is that the Scribe himself went back and retraced his own writing.  That implies that the original Scribe himself had the "superhumanly precise" ability to retrace glyphs...

This is not the explanation I consider the right one, but nevertheless it could be trivial to add more color to wet ink, you can just touch the wet stroke anywhere with the tip of the quill and the new ink will mix in practically without affecting the shape. At least this works for ink on paper, I think this should work just as well on vellum. So, no superhuman ability needed for retouching fresh writing.