In September 1885, a group of librarians — including Melvil Dewey, the decimal man — met to discuss how to expand their card catalogs quickly and legibly, writes Ella Morton on Atlas Obscura. They invented a penmanship style called “library hand.” The typewriter had been invented, but “it took time and effort to teach the art of ‘machine writing’,” she writes. Librarians searched for a uniform writing style that resembled type. “The trouble in handwriting is that there is apt