Novia

From the late eighteenth until the twentieth century lettering for fashionable cards and invitations was engraved on copper plates in graceful joining scripts. Pressure of an etching press squeezed paper into the strokes, drawing up the ink, yielding fine strokes of great elegance and texture. In all such copperplate scripts capitals were elaborately swirled and looped, with matching loops emphasizing the ascenders and reducing the x-height of the lowercase.