Roman characters
Western writing system
Roman characters are the letters of the Latin alphabet—the A-to-Z writing system used for English and most Western European languages.
The term distinguishes this script from others like Cyrillic, Arabic, or Chinese characters: Japanese uses kanji alongside Roman characters for loanwords.
In typography, Roman also contrasts with italic, referring to upright letterforms.
- serif fontsTypefaces with terminal flourishes
- Latin alphabetStandard Western letter system
- capital lettersLarger alphabet forms
- block lettersUnjoined capital writing
- ASCIIElectronic character encoding standard
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