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Formal Text
Italic Hand
Chancery
Bastard Secretary
Secretary
Common Pleas

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Formal Text Hand

Typeface display:

Some of the extra historical characters provided:

Historical note:

In standard use throughout northern Europe from 1200, 'text' hands (so called because of the resemblance of a page written in this style to a woven pattern or textus) replaced the thinner, curved cursive hands; they arose from the use of broader pens, producing heavy strokes and acute angles. This is a particularly decorative text hand, dating from the sixteenth century.

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