Capital X · secretary hand
Swept X
Unit 12
An x with a huge anticlockwise tail.
When is it a capital?
Rare as a capital; judge by size. The X you will meet most often begins Xpofer or Xpian (Christopher, Christian): strictly a Greek chi, read as X.
Model letter
In real manuscripts
Every X here begins “Xpofer” or “Xpter”, short for Christopher. None of these has the model’s great tail.
the X of “Xpofer” (Christopher)
the X of “Xpofer” (Christopher)
the X of “Xpter” (Christopher)
Real ink from digitised records. The scans are toned to match the other examples.
In practice lines
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