Herleitung der Current-Schrift
This is a German penmanship manual of 1700, published in Germany with no named publisher, by the writer Cron, and aimed at calligraphy students learning letterforms. Its plates show full alphabets in several scripts: looping flourished capitals with shaded strokes, rounded decorative capitals, dense rows of swash capitals, and blackletter Fraktur with a headline and lowercase sample lines. A designer could take from them ready-made letter ornaments, swash capital forms, and the contrast between hairline and thick strokes in historical hands.
