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Capital G · secretary hand

Closed G

Unit 7

A compact G with a small ring on top.

When is it a capital?

A capital G is built of interlaced curves, often with a small c or ring on top; letters that look like tangles of curves are usually C, E or G.

Model letter

McKerrow (1927), fig. 23, no. 2 · public domain

In practice lines

Examples of this form are on their way

Don’t confuse it with

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Other forms of capital G

bow Gstruck Gtailed G
Model letters: R. B. McKerrow, An Introduction to Bibliography (1927); Jean de Beauchesne & John Baildon, A Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands (1570 and 1581); Giovambattista Palatino, Libro nel qual s’insegna a scrivere (1550); and manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library; all public domain. They stand in until Leo’s own model letters are drawn. Secretary letters typeset in Joscelyn by Peter S. Baker (SIL Open Font License).