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Palmer Method, a form of penmanship instruction developed in the late 19th century that replaced Spencerian script as the most popular handwriting system in the United States; Round hand, a style of handwriting and calligraphy originating in England in the 1660s; Teaching script; Zaner-Bloser, another streamlined form of Spencerian script
The 19th century brought fewer stylistic innovations. The most notable invention was the rise of typefaces with strengthened serifs. Forerunners were the so-called Egyptienne fonts, which were used already at the beginning of the 19th century.
Fraktur is often characterized as "the German typeface", as it remained popular in Germany and much of Eastern Europe far longer than elsewhere. Beginning in the 19th century, the use of Fraktur versus Antiqua (seen as modern) was the subject of controversy in Germany.
The Antiqua–Fraktur dispute was a typographical dispute in 19th- and early 20th-century Germany. In most European countries, blackletter typefaces like the German Fraktur were displaced with the creation of the Antiqua typefaces in the 15th and 16th centuries. However, in Germany and Austria, the two styles of printing coexisted until the ...
In the 19th century, the use of antiqua alongside Fraktur increased, leading to an Antiqua-Fraktur dispute which lasted until the Nazis mandated an end to the use of Fraktur in 1941. By then, Fraktur had been the most common and well-known blackletter style in Germany for a long time, and as a result all kinds of blackletter (including ...
Alphabet in Kurrent script from about 1865. The next-to-last line shows the umlauts ä, ö, ü, and the corresponding capital letters Ae, Oe, and Ue; and the last line shows the ligatures ch, ck, th, sch, sz (), and st. Danish Kurrent script (»gotisk skrift«) from about 1800 with Æ and Ø at the end of the alphabet Sample font table of German handwriting by Kaushik Carlini, 2021
D'Nealian, a style of writing and teaching cursive and manuscript adapted from the Palmer Method; Zaner-Bloser script, another streamlined form of Spencerian script; Library hand another 19th-century script developed by Melvil Dewey and Thomas Edison; Round hand, a style of handwriting and calligraphy originating in England in the 1660s
The abstracted long "s" (resembling a barless "f") fell out of use in the 19th century. The word "Antiqua" written in the Antiqua style. Antiqua (/ æ n ˈ t iː k w ə /) [1] is a style of typeface used to mimic styles of handwriting or calligraphy common during the 15th and 16th centuries. [2]