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Ductus

Ductus

Illustration: Tezzo Suzuki .

Glyphs from every script are written with a specific stroke order and drawn in a specific direction. This is called the ductus (from Latin ducere, meaning “to lead,” “to pull”). It took multiple evolution phases for characters to look as they do today. Most ductus changes were for characters to be written more easily (and/or faster) with the tools used.

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