Getty-Dubay Italic is a modern teaching script for

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based on

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, developed in 1976 in

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Characteristics

Getty-Dubay Italic is designed as a semi-cursive Italic script. Other than strokes to join the

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s, only the

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letter ' k' and a few

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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 that about one-third of US homeschoolers (and about 7% of US

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generally) now learn Getty-Dubay Italic rather than conventional

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-then-cursive

styles.

Publishing

Getty-Dubay Italic books were previously published by

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and are now self-published by the authors and

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References

External links

Getty-Dubay Italic
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Characteristics

Prevalence

Publishing

See also

References

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