In general terms, Spencerian hands utilize delicately shaded lower-case letters. However, there are variants that do not employ this style. See example here. Spencerian script is a script style that was used in the United States from approximately to and was considered the American de facto standard writing style for business correspondence prior to the widespread adoption of the typewriter.
Platt Rogers Spencer, whose name the style bears, used various existing scripts as inspiration to develop a unique oval-based penmanship style that could be written very quickly and legibly to aid in matters of business correspondence as well as elegant personal letter-writing. Spencerian script was developed in and began soon after to be taught in the school Spencer established specifically for that purpose. He quickly turned out graduates who left his school to start replicas of it abroad, and Spencerian script thus began to reach the common schools.
Spencerian script became the standard across the United States and remained so until the s when the spreading popularity of the typewriter rendered its use as a prime method of business communication obsolete. It was gradually replaced in primary schools with the simpler Palmer Method developed by Austin Norman Palmer. An official recognition by IAMPETH as a uniquely American form, combined with various new books, video tutorials and methods, is making Spencerian more accessible to those interested in learning it.
Spencerian script has also seen a resurgence in academic use by some charter schools and homeschooling using revised Spencerian school practice books and learning methods produced by former IAMPETH president, Michael Sull. Next, I would like to discuss a uniquely American form of handwriting called Spencerian script Figure 4.
Originally developed by Platt R. Spencer, Sr. It is likely that Spencer originated his script using a quill pen; however, the evolution of Spencerian script was influenced by the availability of high quality steel pens such as the Gillott and the Spencerian No. Interestingly, prior to Spencer, handwriting in colonial America was essentially a less ornate form of English roundhand Copperplate Spencer's letterforms reached their zenith during the golden age of American Ornamental Penmanship.
This period lasted from approximately the latter half of the 19th century through the early portion of the 20th century 6, For the purposes of this discussion I will use the term Spencerian script. So how does one distinguish between these two styles, Copperplate and Spencerian? I am not going to detail letterform variances, connectors angles, slant angles, etc.
When trying to distinguish between these styles of script focus on the lower case letters Figures 5 and 6. In general terms Spencerian hands Figure 4, 5 utilize delicately shaded lower case letters. Also, the use of 'wedge shaped shades for letters for the vertical ascender of 't' and 'd' as well as the descender stem of 'p' is common. However, there are variants that do not employ this style.
On the other hand, Copperplate lowercase letters Figure 6 utilize regularly shaded lower case letters. Rather than the delicate lower case forms seen in Spencerian script, dramatic contrasts between shades and hairlines are created in the lower case letters.
The end result is a hand that while quite beautiful, it does not resemble modern cursive script handwriting as developed in the United States. In Figure 7, three versions of the name Zanerian are presented.
The top version is the Spencerian form. Notice how delicately the lowercase letters are shaded. Hopefully, your eye will note that these letters look very similar to the monoline style of school handwriting Zaner-Bloser Method pictured in the middle image Copperplate calligraphy will sometimes have small flourishes, and sometimes it will have large, swooping flourishes that dance across the page!
However with many brides looking for a more modern, fun style for their wedding invitations, calligraphy has evolved a bit to include a new style — modern calligraphy! It is still very much rooted in the controlled, governed style of traditional calligraphy, but it takes the opportunity to have a little bit more fun. Modern calligraphy introduced varying baselines, romantic flourishes, and a little less control over letters, to allow each piece of calligraphy to almost dance across the page.
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