Explore: Cursive Type

Cursive (also known as joined-up writing) is any style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose

divided into old (or ancient) cursive and new cursive. Old Roman cursive, also called majuscule cursive and capitalis cursive, was the everyday form of handwriting

Russian cursive is a variant of the Russian alphabet used for writing by hand. It is typically referred to as (ру́сский) рукопи́сный шрифт (rússky) rukopísny

or kursivniy shrift ("cursive type") – from the German word Kursive, meaning italic typefaces and not cursive writing Cursive handwriting is rukopisniy

the cursive tends to become a minuscule hand. Although the characteristic forms of the uncial type appear to have their origin in the early cursive, the

archaic non-cursive type; the sutra script, a calligraphic script used in Sogdian Buddhist scriptures; and the so-called "Uyghur" cursive script (not

1786. It represents a specialized cursive type of the letter d, just as the integral sign originates as a specialized type of a long s (first used in print

Cursive script (simplified Chinese: 草书; traditional Chinese: 草書; pinyin: cǎoshū; Japanese: 草書体, sōshotai; Korean: 초서, choseo; Vietnamese: thảo thư), often

many surviving examples of different types of cursive, such as majuscule cursive, minuscule cursive, and semi-cursive minuscule. Variants also existed that

Teubner used an upright type, designed to match the original cursive type, in some editions. In the example shown, the cursive type is still used in the