Calligraphy

n. art of producing beautiful or elegant handwriting, penmanship

Calligraphy (from Greek  kallos "beauty" + graphẽ "writing") is the art of beautiful writing (Mediavilla 1996: 17). A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner" (Mediavilla 1996: 18). The story of writing is one of aesthetic evolution framed within the technical skills, transmission speed(s) and materials limitations of a person, time and place (Diringer 1968: 441). A style of writing is described as a script, hand or alphabet (Fraser & Kwiatkowski 2006; Johnston 1909: Plate 6).
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Noun
1. beautiful handwriting
(synonym) penmanship
(hypernym) handwriting, hand, script

(n.)
Fair or elegant penmanship.
  

term for artistically applied writing - important element in chinese and japanese artwork, as well as in islamic art 

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