Developed in Italy's Florentine School of writing, the Italic hand is distinctive in many ways. The letters are basically elliptical or slanting rather than round or vertical, allowing a freer, more flowing style. The letters are made in one continuous stroke, elliptical rather than round.
Developed in Europe in the 12th century, GOTHIC LETTERING is also known as fraktur, BLOCK LETTER or OLD ENGLISH. Another name for it is textura, derived from the distinctive texture created by the even vertical letter forms. In the past, the Gothic hand was most commonly used for formal book writing.
The Unical alphabet is also known as a uniform or majuscu, having no distinctive upper and lower case letters, but one uniform set of characters. Unical letters should be round and generously spaced.
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