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Typography · Scripts & hands

Script

Joined, cursive or copperplate letterforms.

A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under typography: what do the letters look like, and how are they set?

styles make it: 38
as a defining choice: 3
as a usual one: 17
now and then: 18
avoid it: 32

Styles defined by it 3

For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.

Googie & Atomic Age1945–1965 · North AmericaThe exuberant commercial modernism of post-war American roadside culture (coffee shops, motels, car washes, bowling alleys and neon signs), named in 1952 by critic Douglas Haskell after John Lautner's Googie's coffee shop in Los Angeles (1949).
Polish Cold War Neon (PRL Neonisation)1956–1981 · Eastern EuropeThe neon of People's Poland: after the 1956 thaw a state firm, Reklama, and a planned 'neonisation' set out to make war-ruined Warsaw a European capital of neon.
Modern Calligraphy and Brush Lettering2005–present · North America, Western Europe, Global / networkedThe loose pointed-pen and brush-pen script of wedding stationery and the 2010s craft boom.

Styles that often use it 17

A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.

Styles that use it now and then 18

An occasional choice in these styles.

It often goes with

Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.

Romantic & sensualin 20 of 38
Painterly illustrationin 26 of 38
Restrained accentsin 27 of 38
Eclectic mixingin 20 of 38
Nostalgic & retroin 18 of 38
Gradientsin 20 of 38

Styles that avoid it

Styles that deliberately leave it out.

Other choices in typography