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</div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Class of typefaces inspired by handwriting</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:D%27Nealian_Cursive.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/D%27Nealian_Cursive.svg/125px-D%27Nealian_Cursive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="125" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/D%27Nealian_Cursive.svg/188px-D%27Nealian_Cursive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/D%27Nealian_Cursive.svg/250px-D%27Nealian_Cursive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Cursive" title="Cursive">Cursive</a> is an example of a casual script.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CaflischScriptSp.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/CaflischScriptSp.svg/125px-CaflischScriptSp.svg.png" decoding="async" width="125" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/CaflischScriptSp.svg/188px-CaflischScriptSp.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/CaflischScriptSp.svg/250px-CaflischScriptSp.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="396" data-file-height="468" /></a><figcaption>Caflisch Script is an example of a casual script.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Script typefaces</b> are based on the varied and often fluid stroke created by <a href="/wiki/Handwriting" title="Handwriting">handwriting</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawson1990_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawson1990-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Type_Tactics:_Modern_Script_Types_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Type_Tactics:_Modern_Script_Types-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are generally used for <a href="/wiki/Display_typeface" title="Display typeface">display</a> or trade printing, rather than for extended body text in the Latin alphabet. Some Greek alphabet <a href="/wiki/Typeface" title="Typeface">typefaces</a>, especially historically, have been a closer simulation of handwriting. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Styles">Styles</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Script_typeface&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Styles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_script_typefaces" title="List of script typefaces">List of script typefaces</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Union_Pearl.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Union_Pearl.jpg/220px-Union_Pearl.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="115" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Union_Pearl.jpg/330px-Union_Pearl.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Union_Pearl.jpg/440px-Union_Pearl.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1439" data-file-height="750" /></a><figcaption>Union Pearl, an early script typeface<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Script typefaces are organized into highly regular formal types similar to <a href="/wiki/Cursive" title="Cursive">cursive</a> writing and looser, more casual scripts. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Formal_scripts">Formal scripts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Script_typeface&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Formal scripts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A majority of formal scripts are based upon the letterforms of seventeenth and eighteenth century writing-masters like <a href="/wiki/George_Bickham_the_Elder" title="George Bickham the Elder">George Bickham</a>, George Shelley and George Snell. The letters in their original form are generated by a quill or metal nib of a pen. Both are able to create fine and thick strokes. Typefaces based upon their style of writing appear late in the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Contemporary revivals of formal script faces can be seen in <a href="/wiki/Kuenstler_Script" title="Kuenstler Script">Kuenstler Script</a> and <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Carter" title="Matthew Carter">Matthew Carter</a>'s typeface Snell Roundhand. These typefaces are frequently used for invitations and diplomas to effect an elevated and elegant feeling. They may use <a href="/wiki/Typographic_ligature" class="mw-redirect" title="Typographic ligature">typographic ligatures</a> to have letters connect. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Casual_scripts">Casual scripts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Script_typeface&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Casual scripts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Casual scripts show a less formal, more active hand. The strokes may vary in width but often appear to have been created by wet brush rather than a pen nib. They appeared in the early twentieth century, and with the advent of photocomposition in the early 1950s, their number rapidly increased. They were popularly used in advertising in <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> and <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a> into the 1970s. Examples of casual script types include <a href="/wiki/Brush_Script" title="Brush Script">Brush Script</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kaufmann_(script)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaufmann (script)">Kaufmann</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mistral_(typeface)" title="Mistral (typeface)">Mistral</a>. Some may be non-connecting like <a href="/wiki/Freestyle_Script" title="Freestyle Script">Freestyle Script</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Technology">Technology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Script_typeface&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Technology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gospel_Estienne_1550.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Gospel_Estienne_1550.jpg/220px-Gospel_Estienne_1550.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="346" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Gospel_Estienne_1550.jpg/330px-Gospel_Estienne_1550.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Gospel_Estienne_1550.jpg/440px-Gospel_Estienne_1550.jpg 2x" data-file-width="812" data-file-height="1276" /></a><figcaption>Claude Garamond's famous <a href="/wiki/Grecs_du_roi" title="Grecs du roi">grecs du roi</a> typeface, intended to mimic the handwriting of Cretan scribe <a href="/wiki/Angelo_Vergecio" title="Angelo Vergecio">Angelo Vergecio</a>. To mimic his writing, many alternate characters are needed. While this style was once very popular in printing the <a href="/wiki/Greek_alphabet" title="Greek alphabet">Greek alphabet</a>, it is no longer used due to its complexity.</figcaption></figure> <p>Script typefaces place particular demands on printing technology if the letters are intended to join up and vary like handwriting. A typeface intended to mimic handwriting, such as <a href="/wiki/Claude_Garamond" title="Claude Garamond">Claude Garamond</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Grecs_du_roi" title="Grecs du roi">grecs du roi</a> typeface, will require many <a href="/wiki/Stylistic_alternate" class="mw-redirect" title="Stylistic alternate">alternate characters</a>. In digital type these (once drawn) can be substituted seamlessly through contextual <a href="/wiki/Typographic_ligature" class="mw-redirect" title="Typographic ligature">ligature</a> insertion in applications like InDesign, but this was complicated in metal. Another complexity in metal type was that <a href="/wiki/Sort_(typesetting)" title="Sort (typesetting)">sorts</a> had to have delicate overhanging parts to interlock. This required careful design and casting for the sorts to fit together without gaps or the sorts breaking, or leaving gaps to be filled in by the natural spread of ink on paper.<sup id="cite_ref-Venus_Motorroller_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Venus_Motorroller-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Korbmacher-Verein_Kranichfeld_invoice,_1939_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Korbmacher-Verein_Kranichfeld_invoice,_1939-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Script typefaces have evolved rapidly in the second half of the 20th century due to developments in technology and the end of widespread use of metal type. Historically, most signwriting on logos, displays and shop frontages did not use fonts but was rather <a href="/wiki/Lettering" title="Lettering">custom-designed lettering</a> created by signpainters and engravers.<sup id="cite_ref-Not_a_font_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Not_a_font-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Lettering_is_not_type_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lettering_is_not_type-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-English_Vernacular_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-English_Vernacular-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Golden_Age_of_Hand_Lettering_in_American_Advertising_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Golden_Age_of_Hand_Lettering_in_American_Advertising-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As <a href="/wiki/Phototypesetting" title="Phototypesetting">phototypesetting</a> and then computers have made printing text at a range of sizes far easier than in the metal type period, it has become increasingly common for businesses to use type for logos and signs rather than hand-drawn lettering. In addition, phototypesetting made <a href="/wiki/Kerning" title="Kerning">overlap of characters</a> relatively simple, something very complicated to achieve in metal type. <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Carter" title="Matthew Carter">Matthew Carter</a> has cited his 1966 Snell Roundhand typeface as deliberately designed to replicate a <a href="/wiki/Round_hand" title="Round hand">style of calligraphy</a> hard to simulate in metal.<sup id="cite_ref-ADC_Hall_of_Fame:_Matthew_Carter_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ADC_Hall_of_Fame:_Matthew_Carter-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-snell_roundhand_Lawson1990_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-snell_roundhand_Lawson1990-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An additional development enabling more sophisticated script fonts has been the release of the <a href="/wiki/OpenType" title="OpenType">OpenType</a> format, which most fonts are now released in. This allows fonts to have a large character set, increasing the sophistication of design possible, and contextual insertion, in which characters that match one another are inserted into a document automatically, so fonts can convincingly mimic handwriting without the user having to choose the correct substitute characters manually.<sup id="cite_ref-Lettercentric:_Type_as_Writing_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lettercentric:_Type_as_Writing-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many modern script typefaces emulate the styles of hand-drawn lettering from different historical periods. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Unicode">Unicode</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Script_typeface&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Unicode"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symbols" title="Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols">Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols</a></div> <p>For most conventional usages, the regular alpha-numeric <a href="/wiki/Codepoint" class="mw-redirect" title="Codepoint">codepoints</a> for ordinary text should be used, irrespective if their presentation. Script presentation is specified using (for example) the <a href="/wiki/Html" class="mw-redirect" title="Html">html</a> <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">span style="font-family=</code> command. </p><p>For <a href="/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols#Symbols_based_on_Latin_letters" class="mw-redirect" title="List of mathematical symbols">mathematical use</a>, there are sets of dedicated codepoints with both capital and small letters. Few fonts provide support for all 52 characters, and their presentations vary in style from <a href="/wiki/Roundhand" class="mw-redirect" title="Roundhand">roundhand</a> to <a href="/wiki/Chancery_hand" title="Chancery hand">chancery hand</a> and others. </p><p>These characters are: 𝒜ℬ𝒞𝒟ℰℱ𝒢ℋℐ𝒥𝒦ℒℳ𝒩𝒪𝒫𝒬ℛ𝒮𝒯𝒰𝒱𝒲𝒳𝒴𝒵 𝒶𝒷𝒸𝒹ℯ𝒻ℊ𝒽𝒾𝒿𝓀𝓁𝓂𝓃ℴ𝓅𝓆𝓇𝓈𝓉𝓊𝓋𝓌𝓍𝓎𝓏 </p> <ul><li>Some characters are named "SCRIPT ..." in Unicode:</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd><span class="nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">U+2113</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ℓ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SCRIPT SMALL L</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&ell;</span>)</dd> <dd><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2118</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">℘</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SCRIPT CAPITAL P</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&weierp;, &wp;</span>) (actually a misnomer, name is <a href="/wiki/Unicode_alias_names_and_abbreviations#Reason_to_add_an_alias" title="Unicode alias names and abbreviations">corrected</a> into <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r920966791">.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps-smaller{font-size:85%}</style><span class="smallcaps">WEIERSTRASS ELLIPTIC FUNCTION</span>)</dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Script_typeface&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antiqua_(typeface_class)" title="Antiqua (typeface class)">Antiqua (typeface class)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackletter" title="Blackletter">Blackletter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chancery_hand" title="Chancery hand">Chancery hand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Record_type" title="Record type">Record type</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Script_typeface&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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