Spencerian script
（重定向自Spencerian penmanship）
![Enduring example, twenty years after Platt Rogers Spencer's death, of Spencerian script from 1884](/Images/godic/202502/12/Spencerian_example4356.jpg")
![P. R. Spencer's book, published 1866](/Images/godic/202502/12/Spencerbook4356.jpg")
Spencerian Script is a script style that was used in the United States from approximately 1850 to 1925 and was considered the American de facto standard writing style for business correspondence prior to the widespread adoption of the typewriter.
Platt Rogers Spencer, whose name the style bears, used various existing scripts as inspiration to develop a unique oval-based penmanship style that could be written very quickly and legibly to aid in matters of business correspondence as well as elegant personal letter-writing.