gute Ordnung und kurze unterricht [...]" (Nuremberg, 1538), he created a unified style from letters of German cursive scripts - more precisely German Kurrent scripts - which has been around for a long time. With the spread of the school system from the 16th century onwards, reading and writing skills became commonplace among ever more diverse classes.

Alongside the German Kurrent, the humanistic cursive developed as a script for Latin and non-German texts, and from