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tijagi
@nerthos I don’t deny, that a script for blueprints has its own beauty, but it wasn’t created to embellish something or be beautiful in the first place. Just to be readable well. Hence can only be related to calligraphy with its well-aligned forms thanks to the modern tools. There was Roman cursive script for example, which was a simplification of the famous Square capitals script, like this modern standardised one, only with a difference of ~2k years. Roman cursive was a utility script, too, and is not considered calligraphic. But some forms of much later uncial script are derived from it, and uncial is a calligraphic script. And in parallel to Roman cursive and Roman square capitals there was Rustic script, written with a stylo, like the former. Rustic was used exclusively in books, its forms are different from the other two and it is a purely calligraphic script. On the left picture: Roman square capitals script on Trajan’s …