Spencerian
Flowing script style
Spencerian refers to two distinct figures.
Most commonly, it describes the ornate cursive handwriting system developed by Platt Rogers Spencer in the mid-1800s, once the standard for American business correspondence: She learned Spencerian script from her grandmother.
Separately, Spencerian describes ideas associated with philosopher Herbert Spencer, particularly his application of evolutionary theory to society—often called Social Darwinism.
Skill of forming letters
- cursiveJoined handwriting style
- copperplateFormal looped penmanship
- flourishesProspers or ornamental strokes
- swashesSplashing liquid movements
looped · slant · shading · palmer · copybook · penholder · inkwell · nib
Prospers or ornamental strokes
- swashesSplashing liquid movements
- embellishedDecorated or exaggerated
- filigreeDelicate twisted-wire ornamentation
- intricateElaborately detailed, many parts
decorative · adorned · shaded · graceful · elegant · refined · elaborate · scrollwork
The eighteen hundreds
- AmericanFrom the U.S.
- commercialPaid broadcast promotion
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
- ledgerFinancial record book
manuscript · parchment · scriptorium · Victorian · epistolary · mercantile · clerical · diploma
penmanship
Skill of forming letters
- cursiveJoined handwriting style
- copperplateFormal looped penmanship
- flourishesProspers or ornamental strokes
swashes · looped · slant · shading · palmer · copybook · penholder · inkwell · nib · quill
flourishes
Prospers or ornamental strokes
- swashesSplashing liquid movements
- embellishedDecorated or exaggerated
- filigreeDelicate twisted-wire ornamentation
intricate · decorative · adorned · shaded · graceful · elegant · refined · elaborate · scrollwork · curlicues
19th-century
The eighteen hundreds
- AmericanFrom the U.S.
- commercialPaid broadcast promotion
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
ledger · manuscript · parchment · scriptorium · Victorian · epistolary · mercantile · clerical · diploma · certificate
- calligraphyChinese calligraphy, Japanese calligraphy, Arabic calligraphy, Islamic calligraphy, blackletter
- letteringlettering styles, letterforms, calligraphy, hand lettering, handwriting
- script letteringcursive, script font, hand lettering, calligraphy, copperplate
- cursive stylescopperplate
- typographyletters, font, calligraphy, font design, sans serif
- writing systemsalphabet, vowel, alphabets, Cyrillic alphabet, consonant
SpencerianMarxist
Communist theory follower
socialist · collectivist · communist · statist · Keynesian
Spencerianblock letters
Unjoined capital writing
print · sans-serif · printing · angular · Helvetica