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  2. Round hand - Wikipedia

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    Later in the 17th and 18th centuries, English writing masters including George Bickham, George Shelley and Charles Snell helped to propagate Round Hand's popularity, so that by the mid-18th century the Round Hand style had spread across Europe and crossed the Atlantic to North America.

  3. Kurrent - Wikipedia

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    Alphabet in Kurrent script from about 1865. The next-to-last line shows the umlauts ä, ö, ü, and the corresponding capital letters Ae, Oe, and Ue; and the last line shows the ligatures ch, ck, th, sch, sz (), and st. Danish Kurrent script (»gotisk skrift«) from about 1800 with Æ and Ø at the end of the alphabet Sample font table of German handwriting by Kaushik Carlini, 2021

  4. R rotunda - Wikipedia

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    A fifth form, used in the 18th century in some French italic typefaces, was a derivative either of the Schrift form of the minuscule r or of similar typefaces used elsewhere. Its form was of a backwards J set just after the same shape rotated 180 degrees. They were separated by a space smaller than their stroke width, and the whole character ...

  5. Cursive - Wikipedia

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    Greek cursive script, 6th century CE. The Greek alphabet has had several cursive forms in the course of its development. In antiquity, a cursive form of handwriting was used in writing on papyrus. It employed slanted and partly connected letter forms as well as many ligatures. Some features of this handwriting were later adopted into Greek ...

  6. Greek ligatures - Wikipedia

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    Early Greek print, from a 1566 edition of Aristotle. The sample shows the -os ligature in the middle of the second line (in the word μέθοδος), the kai ligature below it in the third line, and the -ou-ligature right below that in the fourth line, along many others. 18th-century typeface sample by William Caslon, showing a greatly reduced set of ligatures (-ου-in "τοῦ", end of first ...

  7. Court hand - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. History of Western typography - Wikipedia

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    Typography, type-founding, and typeface design began as closely related crafts in mid-15th-century Europe with the introduction of movable type printing at the junction of the medieval era and the Renaissance. Handwritten letterforms of the mid-15th century calligraphy were the natural models for letterforms in systematized typography. [1]

  9. Anglo-Saxon runes - Wikipedia

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    Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are runes that were used by the Anglo-Saxons and Medieval Frisians (collectively called Anglo-Frisians) as an alphabet in their native writing system, recording both Old English and Old Frisian (Old English: rūna, ᚱᚢᚾᚪ, "rune").