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Antiqua (/ æ n ˈ t iː k w ə /) [1] is a style of typeface used to mimic styles of handwriting or calligraphy common during the 15th and 16th centuries. [2] Letters are designed to flow, and strokes connect together in a continuous fashion; in this way it is often contrasted with Fraktur-style typefaces where the individual strokes are ...
Court hand: alphabet (upper-cases and lower-cases) and some syllable abbreviations. Court hand (also common law hand, Anglicana, cursiva antiquior, and charter hand [1]) was a style of handwriting used in medieval English law courts, and later by professionals such as lawyers and clerks.
Book hand – Legible handwriting style; Calligraphy – Visual art related to writing; Chancery hand – Any of several styles of historic handwriting (used in the records of the Court of Common Pleas) Court hand – Style of handwriting used in medieval English law courts (also known as law hand, Anglicana, cursiva antiquior, or charter hand)
The following is a list of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy.. Goudy was one of America's most prolific designers of metal type. He worked under the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement, and many of his designs are old-style serif designs inspired by the relatively organic structure of typefaces created between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, following the lead of earlier ...
Various German language blackletter typefaces English blackletter typefaces highlighting differences between select characters Modern interpretation of blackletter script in the form of the font "Old English" which includes several anachronistic glyphs, such as Arabic numerals, ampersand (instead of Tironian et) and several punctuation marks ...
English chancery hand. Facsimile letter from Henry V of England, 1418.. The term "chancery hand" can refer to either of two distinct styles of historical handwriting.A chancery hand was at first a form of handwriting for business transactions that developed in the Lateran chancery (the Cancelleria Apostolica) of the 13th century, then spread to France, notably through the Avignon Papacy, and ...
Insular G, a shape of the Latin letter G once used in Ireland and Great Britain Insular R. In digital typography, the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI) is a project which aims to coordinate the encoding and display of special characters in medieval texts written in the Latin alphabet or in runes, [1] which are not otherwise encoded as part of Unicode.
Humanist minuscule, or whiteletter, [a] is a handwriting script or style of script that was invented in secular circles in Italy, at the beginning of the fifteenth century. [1] The new hand was based on Carolingian minuscule , which Renaissance humanists took to be ancient Roman :