In "looped cursive" penmanship, some ascenders and descenders have loops which provide for joins. This cursive script already showed descenders and ascenders, as well as combinations of letters. The Deseret alphabet was purposely designed so as to not have ascenders and descenders. For example, they lack ascenders and descenders. Nuskhuri letters vary in height, with ascenders and descenders, and are slanted to the right. Negative leading can be affected by ascenders and descenders on certain letters. The equal height of the letters was abandoned, with letters acquiring ascenders and descenders. The descenders were borrowed from a Byzantine uncial shape of uppercase Delta. This version uses the longer descenders from the metal version; the italic is Electra Cursive. The raising and lowering diacritics have optional forms , that avoid descenders. Ascenders are short, and descenders even shorter. Stempel Garamond has relatively short descenders, allowing it to be particularly tightly linespaced. Ascenders, together with descenders, increase the recognizability of words. Unlike "bobbin" type descenders, figure eights can be used on doubled ropes. A "script line" or "art line" was used for more delicate fonts with long descenders.