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 Italic
script is used extensively for invitation and presentation work.
It is a development of the Roman formal hand and began to
replace gothic and medieval scripts around the 16th century due
to the increased fluidity and cursiveness of the strokes
allowing scribes to copy texts more quickly.There are many variants of Italic and the one I use most frequently is Chancery Italic as I personally feel that the serifs added to the letters add grace and elegance. The script can be upright, as shown in the example top left, or slant forwards or backwards to as much as 10-15 degrees and this changes the overall texture of the work as shown in the example bottom left. Italic script suits stylised floral borders and in general can balance stronger borders and decorations than copperplate script but less ornate decoration than Gothic and Celtic Scripts. It works very well in Edwardian settings and the letters can be used to good effect decoratively as shown in the example bottom right which shows an effective interlacing of capital letter forms. The script takes a little more space than Celtic and Gothic scripts but is legible from a distance and therefore suitable for larger seating plans. |
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