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How To Write Roman Rustic Capitals

This document teaches how to write Roman rustic capitals, which are simpler letters used for headings, titles, and short passages. Rustic capitals were named for their rougher style compared to the elegant letters carved in Rome. The alphabet shown has 25 letters, with B, F, and L taller than the others. While ancient Romans used 23 letters, this page includes J and W using a modern calligrapher's model.

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How To Write Roman Rustic Capitals

This document teaches how to write Roman rustic capitals, which are simpler letters used for headings, titles, and short passages. Rustic capitals were named for their rougher style compared to the elegant letters carved in Rome. The alphabet shown has 25 letters, with B, F, and L taller than the others. While ancient Romans used 23 letters, this page includes J and W using a modern calligrapher's model.

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How to write Roman rustic capitals

This page teaches you a form of Roman writing which is useful for all sorts of
headings, titles or even short passages of prose.

(There is a list of Roman numerals on a separate page in case you want proper
medieval-looking dates etc.)

The Roman letters I'm talking about here are called rustic capitals. They were
named 'rustic' probably because they are simpler and rougher than the smooth,
elegant letters which were carved into monuments in the city of Rome.

If you haven't already seen rustic capitals, here's what they look like:

They are lovely, bold, swashy capitals!

Note that B, F and L are taller than the other letters.

You may also have noticed there are only 25 letters in the above alphabet. See
which one is missing?

As mentioned on the Roman alphabet page, the ancient Romans actually only used
23 letters. Ive followed the model supplied by calligrapher Marc Drogin for the
modern letters J and W.

(Drogin's best and best-known teaching text is Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and
Technique (Dover, 1989), pp. 89-91: Roman Rustic. I highly recommend this book
for learning more about historical scripts and how to write them.)

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