Reference Alphabets
Here you will find scanned images and reproductions of alphabets in a variety of document types, languages, and time periods.
English
English Script Tutorial: Alphabet (Brigham Young University)
Scanned images of full alphabets in Secretary hand, Court hand, Italic hand, and English Round hand.
French
Alphabet (Brigham Young University)
Scanned images of complete alphabets, including examples of double letters.
Alphabet Charts (Brigham Young University)
Exhaustive examples of each alphabet letter, lowercase and uppercase, in French handwriting styles used between the 13th and 17th centuries.
German
The German Alphabet (Brigham Young University)
Typed versions of full alphabets, lowercase and uppercase, in English (Latin), Gothic script, and Gothic typeface.
To compare: Suetterlin alphabet to older writings of 17th - 19th century (compiled by Peter Doerling)
Compare examples of each alphabet letter as it appeared in documents written between the 17th and 19th centuries. The evolution of each letter will fascinate you, and these pages will be your go-to source for solving even the trickiest of writing styles.