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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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without the user having to choose the correct substitute characters manually. Many modern script typefaces emulate the styles of hand-drawn lettering from different historical periods.
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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
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for ordinary text should be used, irrespective if their presentation. Script presentation is specified using (for example) the
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hard to simulate in metal. An additional development enabling more sophisticated script fonts has been the release of the
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A majority of formal scripts are based upon the letterforms of seventeenth and eighteenth century writing-masters like
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insertion in applications like InDesign, but this was complicated in metal. Another complexity in metal type was that
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167:. To mimic his writing, many alternate characters are needed. While this style was once very popular in printing the 1325: 1794: 971: 1729: 1546: 1217: 1154: 859: 782: 335: 99: 73: 473: 398: 1174: 897: 1649: 1149: 1144: 1057: 1044: 877: 689: 1784: 1441: 1082: 936: 188: 111: 561: 536: 1789: 1763: 1724: 1637: 1531: 1386: 1364: 1354: 1222: 829: 819: 775: 184: 1687: 1614: 1594: 1584: 1556: 1526: 1486: 1113: 976: 961: 902: 892: 662: 192: 140: 60:
or trade printing, rather than for extended body text in the Latin alphabet. Some Greek alphabet
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has cited his 1966 Snell Roundhand typeface as deliberately designed to replicate a
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Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History.
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Script typefaces are organized into highly regular formal types similar to
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relatively simple, something very complicated to achieve in metal type.
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Columbia University online facsimile of writing manuals including
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Allan Haley article on using digital versions of script typefaces
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typeface, intended to mimic the handwriting of Cretan scribe
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are based on the varied and often fluid stroke created by
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For most conventional usages, the regular alpha-numeric
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into the 1970s. Examples of casual script types include
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Index

Script (typefaces)

Cursive

handwriting
display
typefaces
List of script typefaces

cursive
George Bickham
Kuenstler Script
Matthew Carter
typographic ligatures
Europe
North America
Brush Script
Kaufmann
Mistral
Freestyle Script

grecs du roi
Angelo Vergecio
Greek alphabet
Claude Garamond
grecs du roi
alternate characters
ligature
sorts
custom-designed lettering

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