Handwriting script

thumb|right| Example reading ("Nastaliq script") in Nastaliq. The dotted form is used in place of .

'''''' (, ' script') is the last widely used form of , the historical form of German handwriting script that evolved alongside German blackletter (most notably ') typefaces. Graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin was commissioned by the Prussian Ministry of Science, Art and Education (') to create a modern handwriting script in 1911. His handwriting scheme gradually replaced the older cursive scripts that had developed in the 16th century at the same time that letters in books had developed into Fraktur. The name '''' is nowadays often used to refer to several similar varieties of old German handwrit

thumb|right|Danish script () from about 1800 with ⟨Æ⟩ and ⟨Ø⟩ at the end of the alphabet. thumb|right|Sample font table of German handwriting by Kaushik Carlini, 2021.

Form of handwriting used in ancient Rome and to some extent into the Middle Ages

script style in Persian & Arabic calligraphy

blackletter script common in southern Europe during the middle age

Slavonic calligraphy, where letters merge or fuse in a continuous ornamental strip

handwritten script of the Byzantine Empire

Handwritten form of Russian Cyrillic

business handwriting style

handwritten style of Hebrew letters

Grundschrift (basic handwriting, literally ground script) is a simplified form of handwriting adopted by Hamburg schools, and it is currently endorsed by the German National Primary Schoolteachers' Union.

teaching cursive and learning method

script

type of handwriting

thumb|upright=1.5|Letter of commendation from Ivan the Terrible|Ivan IV Vasilyevich to the [[Solovetsky Monastery (1539)]]

sixteenth-century handwriting script

thumb|"Judeo-Spanish|Judeo-español" in Solitreo and Rashi scripts thumb|Comparison of Solitreo, Rashi script|Rashi and block scripts Solitreo () is a cursive form of the Hebrew alphabet. It is a Sephardi script, quite different from the Ashkenazi cursive Hebrew currently used for Hebrew handwriting in modern Israel and for Yiddish. The two cursive Hebrew script forms differ from each other in many ways, including in that Solitreo uses far more typographic ligatures than the Modern Hebrew script.

style of European handwriting

sample script for learning penmanship

semi-cursive, slightly sloped style of handwriting and calligraphy developed in Italy

right|thumb|D'Nealian cursive writing