Hieratic is a simplified, cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Italic, in printing, a sloping, light-bodied, compact, and almost cursive letter form, which, with roman and black letter shapes, has been one of the three major typefaces in the history of Western printing.
The only difference between writing in print and in cursive is the shape of the letters.
You draw a path on the phone's screen: shapes, zigzags, cursive words, your logo.
By 1962, in a series of pictures called "Mosques of Isfahan," he was combining cursive writing with architectural shapes that looked anatomical.
Beneath a bridge, a blue form by Brazilian painter Zezão unfurls like a tribal marking, recalling the looping shapes of cursive sanskrit script.
As suggested by comparisons among "Grey Center" (1969), "Madame Butterfly" (1978-79), "Macon" (1979) and "Hop and Skip" (1987), crucial advances were made with the introduction of curved shapes and cursive squiggles, a freer use of white grounds and a willingness to detach shapes from the canvas edge.
The branches tested are those labeled with cursive fonts in Figure 3.
His skin is an ode to late-night trips to tattoo parlors: "cowabunga" written in cursive on his neck; two blue shapes like can-openers on his forearm, representing Matisse's paper cut-out of the Venus de Milo; faded "tres puntos" dots underneath his right eye.
He's shaped surveyors' levels into cursive letters (spelling something unprintable here) and carved jagged pieces from a Coke can to make it look like a shattered glass vessel.
