User:IAMNOTJESUSJR/Spencerian script

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Spencerian Script, American form of cursive handwriting, was also widely integrated into the school system as an instructional method until the "simpler" Palmer Method replaced its predecessor. President James A. Garfield called Spencerian Script, "the pride of our country and the model of our schools."

History
While likely originally writing/developing the script with a quill pen, Spencerian Script's evolution is attributed by the availability and development of higher quality steel pens like Spencerian No.1.

Spencerian script was developed in 1840, and began soon after to be taught in the school Spencer established specifically for that purpose, in doing so replacing a form of Copperplate script, English roundhand, which was the most prominent script being taught in America.

Spencerian Script became the official hand of government clerks.

Despite its prominence in the America and its school curriculum, the Spencerian Method for script fell largely due to society's need for a faster, "simpler" script to allow telegraphers to translate Morse code directly into writing. This 'modern need' lead to the Palmer Method's rise as he simplified the Spencerian style to create an 'speedier' method. The development of people's artistic ability/penmanship along with higher quality, more refined tools and materials would lead to the creation of Ornamental Script, a Spencerian script variant.

Feature
In the Spencerian Method, complicated capital letters were written in a series of strokes without moving the pen away from the paper as it was meant to be rhythmic and comfortable. Its lowercase letters are key in separating Spencerian script from its predecessor, Copperplate script, otherwise known as English roundhand, as Spencerian lowercase letters tend to look more delicately and less shaded than its predecessor's (shading entirely absent from 'i', vertical ascender of 't' and 'd' and the descender stem of 'p').

Continued Use
It is speculated and highly likely that the F. M. Robinson, a bookkeeper said to have named Coca Cola, was trained in business and penmanship at Spencerian school, and suggested that it be engraved "Spencerian style." Even though Robinson said he also wrote/made the original script form for the logo alongside Frank Ridge in a court case in 1914, one of Louis Madarasz's pupils claims that the man himself said to him that he he made it during the high of mail-order business for Robinson or Ridge and forgot about it as Coca-Cola had a small and slow start.