Lecture: English Vernacular

In 1998 I began researching the scripts written so beautifully by the English Writing Masters. I came across an interesting script which puzzled me for well over 10 years as to what it could be called. For all intents and purposes, it was more like an Italian Renaissance Humanist Minuscule script written with a pointed flexible nib executed both upright and at variable angles precipitating in multiple script options. I became truly fascinated with this almost Frankenstein-like family and continued my research excitedly.

However, as hard as I looked, I could not find a name for this category of…