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Roman square capitals
The script of Roman inscriptions: chiselled, strict, with no lower case. Our capitals descend from it unchanged. (1st c. BC: 5th c.)
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Which script is this?
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Uncial
Round and broad, every letter equally tall between two lines: a majuscule script without ascenders or descenders. (4th: 8th century)
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Insular script
The hand of Irish and Anglo-Saxon monasteries, with heavy wedges on the ascenders; the Book of Kells is its most famous example. (6th: 9th century)
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Merovingian script
Narrow, spiky and heavily cursive: the Frankish chancery hand before Charlemagne's reform, barely legible to modern eyes. (7th: 8th century)
Foto: Lowe, E. A. (Elias Avery), 1879-1969 · No restrictions · Wikimedia Commons
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Visigothic script
The script of the Spanish kingdoms, until the Council of León imposed Carolingian minuscule in 1090. (8th: 12th century)
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Carolingian minuscule
Clear, round and the same everywhere: Charlemagne's reform. Today's lower-case letters descend from it directly. (9th: 12th century)
Foto: Original by Johannes Gutenberg (printer), Scan by Jossi · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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Textura
Narrow, angular, broken: the letters stand so close the page looks woven. Gutenberg cut his type after it. (13th: 15th century)
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