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    1. …in reply to @alanlawlor
      alanlawlor usefulcharts dlooney Evolution of the lowercase is an interesting one, not included in this chart. That 1-story a & g came from Italian scribes (italic) after a long history of writing Latin letters w/ a quill. Scribes only wrote “lowercase” until 1425 when uc & lc were combined by Poggio Bracciolini
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    alanlawlor usefulcharts dlooney The 2 story lowercase (“minuscule”) a & g come from carolingian scribes, which is another interesting story worth checking out. The underlying structure of these hasn’t really evolved since pre-Gutenberg. It’s also good to distinguish between “type” (fonts) and “lettering” here.
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