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The rcason behind the shaoes of the earfy Roman stript is very simple: the Romans loved writing on their buildings. The technique of cngraving letters onfo stone recuircs letters madc up mostly of straight lines.

This senp: was the anccstor of the Times Mew Roman ^- font we find on our Computer sertens today. Another feature familiar to Computer usere is â– italics'. Initially, characters written by hand resembled the carved letters, but gradualfy schoiars began to change the form of their writing. slanting letters and connecting them. The credit for inyenting Roman script using capitats and smali letters goes to Aldus Manutrjs of Vcnice, in 1495 AO. The old Roman capitais and Greek letter fotms were thus transformed into the twenty-six alphabet letters that we know today. with both upper and lower case letters in common use by the end of the sixtecnth century.

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