A script or handwriting script is a formal, standard style of handwriting (as opposed to personal handwriting) within a writing system. A hand may be a synonym or a variation, such as a subset of script.[1]
There is a variety of historical styles in manuscript documents,[2] Some of them belonging to calligraphy, whereas some were set up for better readability, utility or teaching (teaching script).[3]
Historic styles of handwriting may be studied by palaeography.
List of scripts
- Chancery hand
- Round hand
- Secretary hand
- Court hand
- Library hand
- Blackletter
- Italian hand
- Italic script
- Ronde
- Humanist minuscule
- Carolingian minuscule
- Roman cursive
- Uncial script
- Insular script
- Beneventan script
- Visigothic script
- Merovingian script
References
- ^ Archival Skills: Palaeography
- ^ Types of Script, Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website
- ^ Pidd, Helen (29 June 2011). "German teachers campaign to simplify handwriting in schools". The Guardian.
Sources
- Florey, K.B. (2013). Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting. Melville House. ISBN 978-1-61219-305-2. Retrieved 2024-06-16.
- Douglas, A. (2017). Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840. Oxford Textual Perspectives. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-250621-4. Retrieved 2024-06-16.
- Thornton, T.P. (1996). Handwriting in America: A Cultural History. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-07441-3. Retrieved 2024-06-16.
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