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Kurrent is an old form of handwriting of the German language based on late medieval cursive writing, also known as Kurrentschrift, deutsche Schrift, and German cursive. Over the history of its use into the first part of the 20th century, many individual letters acquired variant forms.

Lettering examples
File:Lessing Kleist-Brief.jpg|Letter from Lessing to Kleist, 14 March 1758 File:Schein und Sein.jpg|Manuscript by Wilhelm Busch (undated, late 19th century) File:Bielsko-Biała Teatr Polski 004.JPG|Example from a book published in 1905 File:Paul Simmel - Das Kind und der Krieg,1916.jpg| script used for text in a 1916 children's book File:Staedt.Kinderheim-01.jpg|Signage on a municipal children's home () in in 2006 File:Kurrent Note.jpg|A handwritten restaurant order in from the 1920s File:Vos-essentials-of-german-p294-raw.png| script from a 1903–14 primer on German, the 26 letters, ligatures, start of sample text File:Vos-essentials-of-german-p295-raw.png| script from a 1903–14 primer on German, the rest of the sample text File:Jul-Greg-George-II-1750.tif|Final paragraph of a German contract from 1750 signed by George II, King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover. It contains a mixture of and 'Latin font' scripts. File:Letter to George Stier.png|Handwritten letter, 1792 ==See also==
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