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Italica
“You dont have to be bold to be heavy metal. Italica – an Italic script, is also known as chancery cursive and Italic hand. Known for its semi-cursive, slightly sloped style of handwriting and calligraphy that was developed during the Renaissance in Italy.
Carve out your own niche like The Italian scholar Niccolò de’ Niccoli who was dissatisfied with the lowercase forms of Humanist minuscule, finding it too slow to write. In response, he created the Italic script, which incorporates features and techniques characteristic of a quickly written hand: oblique forms, fewer strokes per character, and the joining of letters.
You dont have to worry about speed of writing, in the age of the computer but it is nonetheless a pivotal innovation in an otherwise innocuous place.“