Schriftschreiben

15:35 Jul 10, 2011 

Hi MichAlt, within this particular context, your suggestion of hand lettering would be most appropriate.

13:11 Jul 10, 2011 

Thanks a lot for your input, I like your suggestion.

12:17 Jul 10, 2011 

"Schriftgestalter" in the original context seems to cover people who design calligraphic scripts/scripts for handwriting as well as type designers. So maybe the whole thing could be: history of writing, calligraphic script and type designers, handwriting and typesetting

11:54 Jul 10, 2011 

Thanks for the swift answers! I like "calligraphy".
I used "history of writing; type designers" for the first two.
There is not too much context here as it's one of those bad uni texts just listing things. The whole paragraph reads: "Schriftgeschichte; SchriftgestalterInnen; Schriftschreiben und Schriftsetzen; Zusammenhang zwischen Werkzeugen,Technologien, Medien und Schriftformentwicklung; Gestaltungsraster, Ordnung und Gliederung; Text-Bild-Beziehungen, Schriftgestalten in Grundlagen; Grundlagen der Lesbarkeit; Schriftklassifikationen; Typografie als „Botschaft“; Schrift und Farbe; Print versus Screen; Haptik von Papier"

11:35 Jul 10, 2011 

Schriftschreiben often refers to joined-up writing, the second form of handwriting taught in schools (after children have learned to print), and possibly revised once more by budding typesetters, as in your second source. In the first context, though, I think "calligraphy and typesetting" would probably be a legitimate translation of the last two concepts. What have you done with the first two? And could we have some more context, what comes before and after this line?

11:33 Jul 10, 2011 

Or does anybody know if "hand lettering" could be an English term for that?