Handwriting script
A hand or handwriting script is a formal, impersonal, generic style of handwriting.
There is several historical varieties of styles in handwritten documents. Some of them belonging to calligraphy, whereas some were set up for better readabiliy, utility or teaching (teaching 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.
List of hands
- Chancery hand
- Round hand
- Secretary hand
- Court hand
- Library hand
- Blackletter
- Humanist minuscule
- Carolingian minuscule
- Roman cursive
- Uncial script
- Insular script
- Beneventan script
- Visigothic script
- Merovingian script
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