Talk:Western calligraphy

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The source list is kinda long... Where they all actually used? Stupidenator 01:22, 13 November 2007 (UTC)Stupidenator

Also, the prose here is often more complicated than it needs to be. I'm going to Be Bold and simplify in a few spots. Herbivore (talk) 03:44, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikification needed

The Harvard-style references in this article don't conform with guidlelines listed in WP:CITE#HOW, WP:HARV, and WP:CIT; specifically there is no reference list at the bottom of the page. Other parts of the page contain unusual formatting (e.g., the roman numerals after the links at the bottom of the page to different styles of calligraphy). --Bennyfactor 22:18, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Hmm... Now a bunch of sources are cited, but wrong formatting. Instead of superscript numbers linking down to the sources, there are the sources' names in parenthesis. And the source list is bulleted instead of numbers. Someone fix it? Stupidenator 01:18, 13 November 2007 (UTC)Stupidenator

 Done Yug (talk) 16:41, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Harvard-style -> Wiki <ref>-style ! review need.

ATTENTION : I made a major edit, replacing automatically all the displayed citations such : (Einstein 1905), by : . Need further review. Yug (talk) 16:33, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Review  Done, that should be fine now. Yug (talk) 16:41, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Chinese Character

Why is there a Chinese character on this article about western calligraphy?--86.128.86.42 (talk) 11:52, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Texture, Gothic, Gutenburg?

I noticed a redlink in the "Other sub-styles" section to something called "Textura" or also "Gutenburg script." When I searched for Textura, I found Blackletter. Does anybody know if this all refers to the same thing? MezzoMezzo (talk) 04:11, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

From the Blackletter article:

Textualis, also known as textura or Gothic bookhand, was the most calligraphic form of blackletter, and today is the form most associated with "Gothic". Johannes Gutenberg carved a textualis typeface – including a large number of ligatures and common abbreviations – when he printed his 42-line Bible.

Textura is also sometimes used as a synonym, rather than a subset, of blackletter. —Tamfang (talk) 08:40, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Phrasing of calligraphy revival

the wording "After printing became ubiquitous from the 15th century, the production of illuminated manuscripts began to decline.[16] However, the rise of printing did not mean the end of calligraphy.[17]

The modern revival of calligraphy began at the end of the 19th century..." Implies that calligraphy as an artform fell off with Illuminated manuscripts and kind of jumps over the renaissance and early modern developments of handwriting as art in the west and goes straight to the late 19th century. 20:30, 10 November 2022 (UTC)