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Letter shapes
- sans vs. serif
- Roman vs. italic
- geometric sans
- Modern Script A
Minuscule
- double- vs. single-story
- angled upper story
Capital
- drawn like minuscule
- Archaic
Verticals
- tapered
- curved
- parallel
Top
- pointed
- square
- round
- flat
- verticals meet below the top
Bar
- angled
- curved
- V-shaped
- missing
- double
- crosses both verticals
- loops into the right-hand vertical
- loops into the left-hand vertical
- on the baseline
- dot
Cursive
- English script
- Kurrent
- Italian script
- Italian script
- Sütterlin
Uncial
- Semi-uncial
- Insular
- Gaelic/Irish Insular
Blackletter
- Fraktur
- Schwabacher
- Gebrochene Grotesk
- Fraktur A (Old English font)
Origin
- Phoenician Aleph
- Etruscan A
- Early Cyrillic letter Azu
- Cyrillic letter A
Descendants
- Latin script A (aka. Latin alpha)
- IPA Latin turned A
Other signs
- English: Fingerspelling handshapeDeutsch: Fingeralphabet-Handzeichen
- English: SemaphoreDeutsch: Winkeralphabet-Signal
- English: International signal flagDeutsch: Internationale Signalflagge
- English: Braille signDeutsch: Braillezeichen
- English: Morse codeDeutsch: Morsezeichen
Pronunciation
- English: Media:En-us-A.ogg
Audio files
- Spoken Wikipedia - German: A
See also
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