GREEK CURSIVE A

 GREEK CURSIVE ALPHABET

#greekcursivealphabet  

#calligraphy #paleography #greek 

Here's some handwritten forms of Greek which you can compare to either Modern Greek or the PRINT forms or forms used in Inscriptions or to the letter A in Roman ABC systems.

Yes its a cut and paste job but the scans I pasted together come from an very old thoroughly out of print book not easily accessible and no I don't have a copy either. Fortunately I took photos.

Yes Greek has Uncial and Minuscule Too

 YES GREEK HAS UNCIAL AND MINUSCULE TOO

#greek #uncial #minuscule #GreekAlphabet 

Going from my older files over summer I found a folder full of scans from an now thoroughly out of print book which I'm not sure has been properly digitized so ...

Here are the Uncial Cursive and Minuscule forms of Greek letters 

I believe whether you are a student of #typography or #palaeography you will find something of interest?

ALPHA VARIANTS - ONE

 ALPHA VARIANTS

#alpha #letterA #historyofalphabet #alphabet 

The letter A has come a long way from being an Egyptian hieroglyph and a Canaanite pictograph to the modern vowel symbol it is today.

 

 

One of its greatest leaps was the shift from representing the glottal stop to being a vowel in Greek.

However its form had several variants differing in various polises and whether it was written in papyrus or  engraved on stone . The bull kept its horns for a few centuries !

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Alpha Demo One

The Greek letter Alpha in 6 fonts.