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It may seem like a humble virtue but it is not therefore to be disregarded. The great virtue of Roundhand is its simplicity. Roundhand is a modern, twentieth-century calligraphy alphabet based on the scripts of the Italian Renaissance, which themselves were invented because Italian scholars (in particular) had got heartily fed up of trying to read long texts written in tiny, cramped Gothic. Marc Drogin's Medieval Calligraphyalso includes two varieties of Uncial – a plainer version and the later, calligraphic, Artifical Uncial pictured above.The Historical Sourcebook for Scribes, by Michelle Brown and Patricia Lovett contains two Uncial alphabets: the earlier, angled-nib version and what they call the flat-pen version.For learning Uncial without historical reference, I recommend Anne Trudgill's Traditional Penmanship, which offers a straightforward, no-frills approach to producing a display version of the script.But it takes up quite a lot of space. Recommended tutorial books: Uncial is easy to read, with serene overtones, and lends itself to short poems, quotations, and titles. For much of that time it was strictly a calligraphy alphabet (rather than a historical script) in that it was written out slowly and painstakingly to look as impressive as possible. In one form or another, it was used in handwritten books for nearly a millennium. It superficially resembles traditional Irish scripts (Irish/Insular Majuscule). Uncial's rounded form owes something to the Greek alphabet, and historically it's associated with the early Christian Church. His is the version I've based my own tutorial on. Marc Drogin's Medieval Calligraphy also offers useful diagrams – and Drogin uses Rustic Caps throughout his excellent book for section titles.The Historical Sourcebook for Scribes, by Michelle Brown and Patricia Lovett, provides analysis of the script and a calligrapher's expert breakdown of the pen-strokes involved.

Two calligraphy books stand out for this script:

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I love this alphabet, and so have written a free Roman Rustic Capitals tutorial to encourage others to use it more, too.

Living in ancient Rome, you would have seen announcements, information or even rude messages written in Rustic Capitals on the walls of the city, in just the same way as advertising posters or graffiti today. They are basically a nib- or brush-written alternative version of the grand, stone-chiselled, square capitals you can still see all over Roman monuments. Rustic Capitals are the oldest script I include tutorials for on this site. Rustic Capitals are a robust, dynamic calligraphy alphabet, good for titles when you want formality and impact without rigidity. Colour temperature for calligraphy and art.