Tayasui Calligraphy Reviews

I downloaded this on spec because I love Tayasui’s sketch apps on my iPhone. When I saw there was a calligraphy app compatible with Apple Pencil, I had to get it to break in my iPad Pro.

I am a bit disappointed at how lite the features are here. There is not much control and my first few experiences with TayasuiCalligraphy left me slightly disappointed. More features would be greatly appreciated. A few random thoughts and suggestions: my hand triggers the brush unintentionally sometimes when I use my Apple Pencil. A move tool and/or layers would be appreciated. Pressure sensitivity on the black letter brush doesn’t appear to work. More Apple Pencil compatibility, for example the double-tap on pencil function.

I’ll keep playing with TayasuiCalligraphy, and maybe I’ll get better. Thanks!

I feel quite limited by size of the canvas and the guidelines. The guidelines are way too big if you wanted to write anything more than a short word (55 slant). When I rotate my iPad to be in landscape mode it turns 55 slant into a 35 slant? Not sure why it does that. I also wish you could move the canvas similar to procreate. If I wanted to write on the left hand side I would need to zoom in. It won’t just let me center the left side of the canvas. Also zooming is kinda buggy.

I love TayasuiCalligraphy! I wish there was more to do on here because I know. You would have great features.I have found that for some reason my paper turns different colors and I can’t get them back to the original white color I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but I wish there was somewhere we could go to find out tips or little things to do. I really like how the pin writes in calligraphy it’s more realistic looking. Anyway keep up the good work and I hope you come out with some update soon because I definitely would Buy an upgrade for TayasuiCalligraphy.

I like the brush noise when you use the pen tool. It sounds like you’re dipping a pen into paper. The ink effect comes out nicely. However, I wish you could move the canvas around and have more options to adjust the brushes. It works fine but it could be improved.

Even though it doesn’t describe itself as a watercolor app and is missing features an experienced watercolorist would expect, I found TayasuiCalligraphy extremely intuitive to use and am thrilled at how easy it was to capture that organic feel I crave. The texture is amazing, you can keep coloring over an area to increase the depth, blend modes for layering and shading work as expected, and the color “dries” with a lovely darker edge. Please please make these brushes available in Tayasui Sketches!

There was one time TayasuiCalligraphy crashed when I tried to edit the pen settings, but it’s a new app and it only happened once. No big deal.

I love everything about TayasuiCalligraphy, and am looking forward to all the magnificent things I’m going to create with it in the future.

It’s so versatile!

I the application got much waited features, like layers and guides.

Now it’s close to perfection.

If only it could get more papers, guides and snapping, that would be grait (even for additional fee)
just love it. It reminds me of my childhood, when I was making poster headings for school newspaper.

Although quite simple, it is still my first choice.

The only issue is that quite often while drawing by apple pencil my hand also leaves some marks. This could be simulated by constantly tapping your finger on screen.

It’s an amazing calligraphy experience , but it needs some more features like cut and paste and selection and layers

TayasuiCalligraphy is now my favorite drawing app. it feels so peaceful when drawing i don’t know how but it does haha. the only thing i would like to see added to TayasuiCalligraphy is the possibility of the duplication of the drawings

thank you for this amazing app!!! ✨🥰

Tayasui does it again. So amazingly fluid with lots of variations.
The “Texture” setting shows difference in transparency but “texture” is not easily discerned. Unless, the transparency allows the texture underneath to come through?

I think this is now my favorite app.

Since the last update I have lost the brush with thin start and end, so the lines can’t be subtle any longer. Hope this gets fixed. Like the layers and other improvements.

This little application is marvelous, that is, it is a marvel. It approaches very closely the act of writing with edged pen and makes adaptation of that tool to letters easy, enjoyable, and easily experimental. A truly fine job and gracious offering.

Great app, I just wish it also had little lessons on how to write in calligraphy

Works well, even with my cheap pen. Best of its kind!

I’ve exhausted all manner of settings to create the font listed in the description that say ‘Round’ and ‘Brush’ but the end swish/mark never thins out - it stays the same with as regular writing pressure. The lift of the pen (Apple Pencil) should decrease the width of the font when a letter or word is finished.

I'd love to love TayasuiCalligraphy but it has serious orientation issues, at least on my iPad Pro. It doesn't rotate, saves portrait work as landscape and crashes every now and then.

Does not do anything that you

*** Downgraded to 1 star ***

It’s a real shame to have to downgrade TayasuiCalligraphy which I loved to use almost everyday. Now it is unusable. I have waited over 2 weeks for a response from the developer and nothing. So I made sure my drawings were backed up via iCloud. They were. Then I reinstalled TayasuiCalligraphy . Big mistake!!! Not only did I loose all my calligraphy drawings, but TayasuiCalligraphy still does not work properly, and hangs up on the menus which freezes TayasuiCalligraphy . This makes TayasuiCalligraphy unusable. I also lost all my custom colors I added to my palette. Over a year’s worth of work just vanished. What good is it to have iCloud back-up if it doesn’t actually work? I’m so utterly crushed! All my other apps with iCloud back-up turned on work perfectly fine. You can tell how much I loved TayasuiCalligraphy from my review below. I only subtracted 1 star at the time I wrote that review, hoping there would be a quick update to fix the hanging menu & freezing app problems and return it to 5 stars!

R.I.P. Tayasui Calligraphy app. You were once well loved.

Hi,

I absolutely love the Calligraphy app! I use it often and just yesterday it started freezing up when I select a new paper. It allows me to get to the menu to select a new paper and it has the black vertical line indicator to show which paper I selected, but when I tap the canvas, the paper selector menu won’t disappear. Same with the upper right menu, it won’t disappear and everything is just frozen.

I’ve tried closing TayasuiCalligraphy and opening it again. This does bring up the previous drawing, but when I go to make a new canvas it will not let me get past the paper select menu. I can draw calligraphy with the default paper, but nothing else.

I’ve tried restarting my iPad but it also does not resolve the issue.

I don’t want to delete TayasuiCalligraphy and reinstall it as I have several projects that I need to go back to and maybe change or add layers to.

Is there a limit on how many drawings can be saved? Maybe that needs to be increased? I’m not sure?

I’m just crushed that TayasuiCalligraphy isn’t performing well now! But I have faith it can be resolved! 😊

Also, I do have some feature requests for a future update:
Ability to import a photo as a layer or background
Abilities to select, move, copy & paste letterforms that I’ve created both within TayasuiCalligraphy and other apps without the paper of background (w/ automatic instant alpha)
Drop shadows! A variety to choose from would be great!
Would be cool to make a brush that can have two or three colors as a gradient that works on the fly as you draw each stroke of the letter form! I’m not sure that’s possible but it would be really cool!
Metallic looking inks
Ability to apply & change colors & effects after making the drawing or letterforms, i.e. apply gradients, metallics etc to whatever is selected after it has been drawn
I am able to copy & paste into other apps but I have to use something like instant alpha to get rid of the paper background. It works pretty good but it’s not perfect!

Anyway, keep up the good work... I can’t tell you how much I love your app and it’s my favorite way to do my calligraphy on a tablet! The results are amazing and I get a lot of compliments!

Even though it doesn’t describe itself as a watercolor app and is missing features an experienced watercolorist would expect, I found TayasuiCalligraphy extremely intuitive to use and am thrilled at how easy it was to capture that organic feel I crave. The texture is amazing, you can keep coloring over an area to increase the depth, blend modes for layering and shading work as expected, and the color “dries” with a lovely darker edge. Please please make these brushes available in Tayasui Sketches!