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Writing may refer to two activities: the inscribing of characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other lingual constructs that represent language and record information, or the creation of information to be conveyed through written language. (There are some exceptions; for example, the use of a typewriter to record information is generally called typing, rather than writing.) Writing refers to both activities equally, and often both activities occur simultaneously; however one may write while doing only one of the activities.
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Calligraphy (from Greek καλλος kallos "beauty" + γραφος graphos "writing") is the art of decorative writing. A style of calligraphy is described as a hand.
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that the Korean alphabet Hangul was promulgated by the Korean king Sejong the Great after being developed under his guidance by a team of researchers. It is the rare example of a writing system that is thoroughly planned after scientific points of view.
Selected persons from Writingedit
Alberti (Leon Battista Alberti) -
Baskerville (John Baskerville) - Bazeries (Étienne Bazeries) - Biro (Laslo Biró) - Bliss (Charles K. Bliss) - Bodoni (Giambattista Bodoni) - Braille (Louis Braille) - Bright (Timothy Bright) -
Champollion - Chappe (Claude Chappe) - Coe (Michael D. Coe) - Coster (Laurens Janszoon Coster) - Cyrill
Didot (François Ambroise Didot) - Diringer (David Diringer) - Dvorak (August Dvorak)
Feuillet (Raoul Anger Feuillet) -
Gabelsberger (Franz Xaver Gabelsberger) - Garamond (Claude Garamond) - Gardiner (Alan Gardiner) - Gelb (Ignace J. Gelb) Goudy (Frederick William Goudy) - Gregg (John Robert Gregg) - Grotefend (Georg Friedrich Grotefend) - Gutenberg (Johannes Gutenberg) -
Hafiz Oman -
Ibn Muqla -
Knorosov (Yuri Knorosov) -
Laban (Rudolph von Laban) - Landa (Diego de Landa) - León (Pedro Ponce de León) -
Manutius (Aldus Manutius) - Moon (William Moon) - Morris (William Morris) - Morse (Samuel Morse) -
Niebuhr (Carsten Niebuhr) -
Pitman (Isaac Pitman) - Premack David Premack -
Rafinesque-Schmaltz (Constantine Samuel Rafinesque) - Rawlinson (Henry Creswicke Rawlinson) -
Schmandt-Bessarat (Denise Schmandt-Besserat) - Sejong - Sequoyah - Sholes (Christopher Latham Sholes) - Sudre Jean François Sudre -
Thompson (John Eric Sidney Thompson) - Tiro (Marcus Tullius Tiro) -
Vail (Alfred Vail) - Ventris (Michael Ventris) - Vigenère (Blaise de Vigenère) -
Wang Xizhi - Wheatstone (Sir Charles Wheatstone) -
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Calligraphy -Abjad - Kanji - Logographic writing systems - Alphabetic writing systems - Unique scripts - Writing systems - Cyrillic alphabet - Hellenic scripts - Hellenic scripts -
