Since a Parisian printer created the first in 1643, script typefaces have become almost as numerous as the handwriting instruments—brush, broad-edged pen or pointed pen—that they were designed to imitate. Script typefaces often mimic handwriting techniques by joining letters with connecting lines. Scripts should be used sparingly and only when appropriate to a particular design job. Italics, especially those in a serif font family also take on the appearance of a script font. Scripts should never be set as long blocks of text and never as uppercase/all caps. But they can be particularly stunning when set very large or used as a decorative graphic or line work.