Handwriting script

This article is about generic style of handwriting. For personal style of writing, see Handwriting. For a typeface that imitates handwriting, see Script typeface.

A script or handwriting script is a formal, generic style of handwriting (as opposed to personal handwriting), within a writing system. A hand may be a synonym or a variation, a subset of script.[1]

There is a variety of historical styles in manuscript documents,[2] Some of them belonging to calligraphy,[3] whereas some were set up for better readability, utility or teaching (teaching script).[4] see History of the Latin script.

Historic styles of handwriting may be studied by palaeography.

Personal variations and idiosyncrasies in writing style departing from the standard hand, which may for example allow the work of a particular scribe copying or writing a manuscript to be identified, are described by the term handwriting (or hand).

The evolution of the minuscule Latin hand

List of hands

References

  1. ^ Archival Skills: Palaeography
  2. ^ Types of Script, Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website
  3. ^ Wang, Pin (2023). "Calligraphy and Painting". In Shei, Chris; Wang, Bo (eds.). doi:10.4324/9780367565152-RECHS4-1. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ Pidd, Helen (29 June 2011). "German teachers campaign to simplify handwriting in schools". The Guardian.

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