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Script

A face that joins, or looks as though it could, taking its shapes from handwriting rather than from printing.

Script: Fleischman's written hand cut as type, from the Enschedé specimen of 1768, the letters joined as handwriting.
Fleischman's Geschreven Schrift, 1768, Joan Michael Fleischman, punchcutter; Joannes Enschedé, printer.
Public domainPublic domain: Printed in Haarlem in 1768; Fleischman died in 1768 and Enschedé in 1780, and the sheet is out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the file public domain (Rijksmuseum), and this house reads a faithful photograph of a flat public-domain sheet as carrying no new copyright.
Cropped to the specimen. Retrieved 2026-09-10.
Script: a formal copperplate script type, capitals, lowercase and figures joined as if written with a pointed pen, on a foundry specimen.
Formal Script, a foundry specimen, unknown American foundry; photographed by James Puckett. CC BY 2.0. Retrieved 2026-09-10.
Script: Typo Script at 36 and 48 point on an Adcraft Typographers specimen sheet, a foundry script with flourished capitals and a joined lowercase.
Typo Script, Adcraft specimen, American Type Founders, Typo Script; the sheet by Adcraft Typographers; photographed by James Puckett. CC BY 2.0. Cropped to the 36 and 48 point showings. Retrieved 2026-09-10.

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What it is made of

connectionformal scripts join at the baseline; casual ones only imply it
slopeusually present, and usually steeper than an italic
the classification this term belongs to is retiredde-adopted 18 March 2021AND THE CLASSIFICATION THIS TERM BELONGS TO WAS RETIRED BY ITS OWN CUSTODIAN. The ATypI board de-adopted Vox-ATypI on 18 March 2021 and withdrew its endorsement, because the system divides only the Latin writing system and a later revision put Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew and the Asian scripts together under one heading called Non-Latines. ATypI, "ATypI de-adopts Vox-ATypI typeface classification system", published 27 April 2021, read whole (1,136 words). THE STATEMENT DOES NOT DEFINE THIS CLASS: it names only Garaldes and Linéales as examples, so nothing in this entry's own definition comes from it