handwriting script

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A script or handwriting script is a formal, generic style of handwriting (as opposed to personal handwriting), within a writing system. A hand may be a synonym or a variation, a subset of script.[https://libguides.hull.ac.uk/archival-skills/palaeography Archival Skills: Palaeography]

There is a variety of historical styles in manuscript documents,[https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/types-script Types of Script, Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website] Some of them belonging to calligraphy,{{Cite book |last=Wang |first=Pin |chapter=Calligraphy and Painting |date=2023 |editor-last=Shei |editor-first=Chris |doi=10.4324/9780367565152-RECHS4-1 |editor-last2=Wang |editor-first2=Bo}} whereas some were set up for better readabiliy, utility or teaching (teaching script).{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/29/germany-teachers-handwriting-schools-schreibschrift | title=German teachers campaign to simplify handwriting in schools | newspaper=The Guardian | date=29 June 2011 | last1=Pidd | first1=Helen }} see History of the Latin script.

Historic styles of handwriting may be studied by palaeography.

Personal variations and idiosyncrasies in writing style departing from the standard hand, which may for example allow the work of a particular scribe copying or writing a manuscript to be identified, are described by the term handwriting (or hand).

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