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Externet

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

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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 :

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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:

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And the r here :

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and this is also a g :   320268036_Screenshotfrom2019-03-1721-51-36.png.72f1f9089040f480e1b3d6f86d082238.png

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