Rustic capitals

Rustic capitals (Latin: littera capitalis rustica) is an ancient Roman calligraphic script.

Because the term is negatively connoted supposing an opposition to the more 'civilized' form of the Roman square capitals, Bernhard Bischoff prefers to call the script canonized capitals.

The letters are thinner and more compressed, use many more curved lines than do square capitals, and have descenders extending below the baseline.

The scripts written in rustic capitals use punctus marks (dots which are placed between the words) to denote word separation, contrary to the common practice of scriptura continua (the continuous writing of words without any form of separation see Uncial script).

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