began to lose any distinctive characteristics and style, and instead adopt and conform to a more uniform style. The way in which individual scriptoria improved their techniques generally followed a similar pattern, however: initially beginning with improvements to an existing Merovingian script, they would next incorporate features associated with Insular scripts from British and Irish monasteries, all the while in parallel adopting Half-uncial characteristics for economy in speed of copying and use of parchment.

Carolingian minuscule