Getty-Dubay Italic
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Getty-Dubay Italic is a modern teaching script for handwriting based on Latin script, developed in 1976 in Portland, Oregon, by Barbara Getty and Inga Dubay[1] with the aim of allowing learners to make an easier transition from print writing to cursive.
Characteristics
Getty-Dubay Italic is designed as a semi-cursive Italic script. Other than strokes to join the letters, only the lower-case letter 'k' and a few upper-case letters have forms different from their printed equivalents. Getty-Dubay Italic is written with a slant of 85 degrees, measured counterclockwise from the baseline.
Prevalence
It has been claimed[by whom?] that about one-third of US homeschoolers (and about 7% of US schoolchildren generally) now learn Getty-Dubay Italic rather than conventional manuscript-then-cursive handwriting styles.[citation needed]
Publishing
Getty-Dubay Italic books were previously published by Portland State University and are now self-published by the authors and Allport Editions.
See also
- Spencerian script, a US teaching script
- Palmer script, a US teaching script
- D'Nealian script, a US teaching script
- Zaner-Bloser script, a US teaching script
- BFH script, a US teaching script
- Regional handwriting variation
References
- ^ Biographies of Barbara Getty and Inga Dubay
External links
- Getty-Dubay Italic official site
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