Since calligraphy is done by hand, calligraphers call the different styles of lettering calligraphic hands. Type styles on the computer are called fonts. Font is how most people today refer to styles of alphabets. Whatever you wish to call them, I have many different lettering styles that I do. Below are shown the most popular. The capital letters set the style of the alphabet so check them closely and you will see the difference in styles.

This is called Bastarde or sometime Batarde. It is a variation of the Gothic shown below.

This is a style called bookhand. It is a simple Roman that is easy to read.

Above is the Uncial Hand. This is a style of lettering that dates back over 1500 years and was used most in Ireland.

The Gothic hand is also called blackletter or Old English. It dates from about 600 years ago and was most used in northern Europe.

This is a calligraphic hand called Palomares. It was named after a calligrapher in the 1700's and in the 20th century was turned into a type face. Now we have revived the calligraphic version.

These two examples show Vivaldi. This was designed as a type font in the 1970's and we developed the calligraphic hand from that shortly after.

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