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544: 30: 162: 728: 56: 80:) is a kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look. It appeared in France at the end of the 16th century, growing out from a late local variant of Gothic cursive influenced by North Italian Renaissance types in 117:. It was still in wide use until the 20th century because it was used in French school manuals to teach the bases of cursive writing, and was also commonly used by the scribes of the 396: 310: 769: 389: 793: 341: 762: 660: 382: 803: 700: 118: 808: 755: 491: 798: 451: 47: 481: 217: 108: 543: 145: 95: 707: 598: 521: 103:
While this style of writing fell out of popularity after the invention of a mass-produced pointed
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reintroduced it again (this time with a steel broad-nibbed pen) in the modified form of his
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were also very present in the work of 18th century type founder and calligrapher
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until right after World War II, which gave this style the name of
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Ronde script (calligraphy)

Charles Paillasson

French
Rotunda
Civilité
Louis Barbedor
pen from steel
Friedrich Soennecken
French Ministry of Finance
Nicholas Gando
icon
Writing portal
Asemic writing
Bastarda
Blackletter
Book hand
Calligraphy
Chancery hand
Court hand
Cursive
Hand (writing style)
Handwriting
History of writing
Italic script
Law hand
Palaeography
Penmanship
Rotunda (script)

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