When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Calligraphy - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligraphy

   Calligraphy has arguably become the most venerated form of Islamic art because it provides a link between the languages of the Muslims with the religion of Islam. The Qur'an has played an important role in the development and evolution of the Arabic language, and by extension, calligraphy in the Arabic alphabet. Proverbs and passages from the ...

3. Lettering - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettering

   Some calligraphers and hand-letterers say that calligraphy created with brush pens becomes lettering or faux-calligraphy, [15] but others believe that the approach used to create the letters is more important than the tools used to do so. [1] [16] Typography is the use of type in a repeating system, where each instance of the same letter looks ...

4. Odia script - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odia_script

   Odia is an alphasyllabic alphabet or an abugida wherein all consonants have an inherent vowel embedded within. Diacritics (which can appear above, below, before or after the consonant they belong to) are used to change the form of the inherent vowel. When vowels appear at the beginning of a syllable, they are written as independent letters ...

5. Copperplate script - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copperplate_script

   Although often used as an umbrella term for various forms of pointed pen calligraphy, Copperplate most accurately refers to script styles represented in copybooks created using the intaglio printmaking method. The term Copperplate Script identifies one of the most well-known and appreciated calligraphic styles of all time.

6. Cursive script (East Asia) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_script_(East_Asia)

   Cursive script (Chinese: 草書, 草书, cǎoshū; Japanese: 草書体, sōshotai; Korean: 초서, choseo; Vietnamese: thảo thư), often referred to as grass script, is a script style used in Chinese and East Asian calligraphy. It is an umbrella term for the cursive variants of the clerical script and the regular script. [1]

7. Zaner-Bloser (teaching script) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaner-Bloser_(teaching_script)

   Detail from Zaner's 1896 article: The Line of Direction in Writing [3] A major factor contributing to the development of the Zaner-Bloser teaching script was Zaner's study of the body movements required to create the form of cursive letters when using the 'muscular arm method' of handwriting – such as the Palmer Method – which was prevalent in the United States from the late 19th century.