- Round hand
Round hand (also roundhand) is a type of
handwriting andcalligraphy originating inEngland in the 1660s primarily be the writing masters John Ayers and William Banson. Characterized by an open flowing hand and subtle contrast of thick and thin strokes deriving from metal nibs, its popularity rapidly grew becoming codified as a standard through the publication of printed writing manuals.Later in the 17th and 18th centuries English writing masters including George Bickham, George Shelley and George Snell had helped to propagate roundhands popularity so that by the mid-18th century the round hand style had spread across Europe and crossed the Atlantic to North America. The typefaces Snell Roundhand and
Kuenstler Script are based on this style of handwriting.References
*Carter, Rob, Day, Ben, Meggs,Philip. "Typographic Design: Form and Communication, Second Edition." Van Nostrand Reinhold, Inc: 1993 ISBN 0-442-00759-0.
* Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. "Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History." Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
* Macmillan, Neil. "An A–Z of Type Designers." Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.
* Nesbitt, Alexander "The History and Technique of Lettering" Dover Publications, Inc.: 1998. ISBN 0486402819, The Dover edition is an abridged and corrected republication of the work originally published in 1950 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. under the title "Lettering: The History and Technique of Lettering as Design".External links
* [http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=2298 Folger Shakeseare Library web page on round hand manuscripts]
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/00/01/RBMLExhibition.html Columbia University online facsimile of writing manuals including "The Universal Penman"]
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