If you want to study calligraphy, you could do worse than startaing with SpeedBall pens. It used to be the Hunt Pen company. I have no idea if the founder was a member of my tribe or not. My older brother used to be able to make very attractive Christmas cards with those pens. I even made some passable ones. The software I used ten years ago became obsolete, and the replacements were just too damned hard to master. But take a look at what SpeedBall offers:
http://www.speedballart.com/letteringcharts.pdf