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Capital W · secretary hand

Flat W

Unit 7

A flat W with a long approach.

When is it a capital?

A capital W shows by width more than height, sometimes with a dot inside; a dot alone does not make it capital unless it is also larger than the small letters.

Model letter

McKerrow (1927), fig. 23, no. 3 · public domain

In practice lines

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Don’t confuse it with

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Other forms of capital W

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).