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In a Western context, Uncial is a majuscule [1] script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. [2] Uncial letters were used to write Greek and Latin, as well as Gothic, and are the current style for Coptic and Nobiin. In a Slavic context, Uncial/Ustav and Semi-Uncial ...
Antiqua (/ ænˈtiːkwə /) [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 broken apart.
Some calligraphers and hand-letterers say that calligraphy created with brush pens becomes lettering or faux-calligraphy, [14] but others believe that the approach used to create the letters is more important than the tools used to do so. [1] [15] Typography is the use of type in a repeating system, where each instance of the same letter looks ...
Modern calligraphy art "Ruthenia"[edit] "Ruthenia" is the general name of fonts and font sets for the Ukrainian alphabet, created in 2000–2021 by Professor Vasyl Chebanyk based on the primary Ukrainian traditions of the Kievan Rus' era and Cossack cursive, which became the project "Graphics of the Ukrainian Language".
Rotunda (script) Calligraphic writing of the word "Rotunda" in the Italian script of same name. The Rotunda is a specific medieval blackletter script. It originates in Carolingian minuscule. Sometimes, it is not considered a blackletter script, but a script on its own. It was used mainly in southern Europe.
Islamic calligraphy is associated with geometric Islamic art (Arabesque) on the walls and ceilings of mosques as well as on the page or other materials. Contemporary artists in the Islamic world may draw on the heritage of calligraphy to create modern calligraphic inscriptions, like corporate logos, or abstractions.
A page from the Nuremberg Chronicle (Schedelsche Weltchronik), 1493. The German word Schwabacher (pronounced [ˈʃvaːˌbaxɐ]) refers to a specific style of blackletter typefaces which evolved from Gothic Textualis (Textura) under the influence of Humanist type design in Italy during the 15th century. Schwabacher typesetting was the most ...
A page from the Zograf Codex with text of the Gospel of Luke. The Glagolitic script (/ ˌɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk / GLAG-ə-LIT-ik, [2] ⰃⰎⰀⰃⰑⰎⰉⰜⰀ, glagolitsa) is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed that it was created in the 9th century for the purpose of translating liturgical texts into Old Church Slavonic by ...