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  2. Italic script - Wikipedia

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    Example page of the "Italique Hande" from a copy of A booke containing diuers sortes of hands... first published in 1570.. Italic script, also known as chancery cursive and Italic hand, is a semi-cursive, slightly sloped style of handwriting and calligraphy that was developed during the Renaissance in Italy.

  3. Italic type - Wikipedia

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    Aldus Manutius' italic, in a 1501 edition of Virgil. Italic is only used for the lower case and not for capitals. [1] In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. [2] [3] [4] Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as one of the major typefaces in the history of Western typography.

  4. Chancery hand - Wikipedia

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    The Italian scribe Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi's 1522 influential pamphlet on handwriting called La Operina was the first book on writing the italic script known as cursive chancery hand. [6] He was a scribe in the Papal Curia , which had refined cursive chancery hand in its infancy during the latter half of the 15th century. [ 4 ]

  5. Getty-Dubay Italic - Wikipedia

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    Getty-Dubay Italic is designed as a semi-cursive Italic script. Other than strokes to join the letters, only the lower-case letter 'k' and a few upper-case letters have forms different from their printed equivalents. Getty-Dubay Italic is written with a slant of 85 degrees, measured counterclockwise from the baseline.

  6. Palmer Method - Wikipedia

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    Florey, Kitty Burns (January 20, 2009). Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting (First ed.). Melville House. ISBN 978-1933633671.; The Palmer Method of Business Writing: A Series of Self-teaching Lessons in Rapid, Plain, Unshaded, Coarse-pen, Muscular Movement Writing for the Home Learner, Where an Easy and Legible Hand-writing is Sought.

  7. Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National ... - AOL

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    California passed a law in 2023 requiring that “cursive or joined italics” be taught for first through sixth grades. The law’s author said it was so students could read primary source ...

  8. Society for Italic Handwriting - Wikipedia

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    The Society for Italic Handwriting (SIH) is a British organisation promoting the use of italic handwriting, and better and more legible handwriting in general. It was founded in 1952 by Alfred Fairbank and other members of the Society of Scribes & Illuminators. [1] [4] [5] [6] [7]

  9. D'Nealian - Wikipedia

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    D'Nealian cursive writing. The D'Nealian Method (sometimes misspelled Denealian) is a style of writing and teaching handwriting script based on Latin script which was developed between 1965 and 1978 by Donald N. Thurber (1927–2020) in Michigan, United States.