Fonts... and a little extra time on hand.

At about first grade, I learned to write the lower case alphabet as

Then, the books I had to read had these different :  a, f, r, s, z   When did fonts  became such ?

I thought it was with the invention of printing; but looking at manuscripts from before, they are there, as handwritten.  Is there two kinds ? Manuscript and printing manuscript lower case ?

Look at 'proper'  r, a, s, f, here :

For s,  interestingly, "colonies solemnly"  differ.  But the r from  Morris differs...  It was mixed then.

For a, seems in the 19th century someone decided to make it different:

And the r here :

and this is also a g :  

Edited March 18, 20196 yr by Externet