Editing Ol Chiki script (section)

== Print and cursive styles ==
[[File:Ol chiki cursive.png|thumb|The image shows Ol Chiki Chapa/print and Usara/cursive styles, with the ''chapa'' style of each letter written in the first row, and the corresponding ''usara'' style in the second row]]
The existence of these two styles of Ol Chiki was mentioned by the script's creator: Guru Gonke Pandit Raghunath Murmu (also known as Pandit Murmu) in his book ''Ol Chemed''<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Samal |first=A. P. Subhakanta |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e4NtEAAAQBAJ&dq=Ol+Chemed&pg=PA73 |title=PERSONALITIES OF ODISHA |date=2022-01-14 |publisher=Shubhdristi Publication |isbn=978-93-5593-204-4 |language=en |access-date=2022-06-22 |archive-date=2023-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926064427/https://books.google.com/books?id=e4NtEAAAQBAJ&dq=Ol+Chemed&pg=PA73 |url-status=live }}</ref> which explains and teaches the Ol Chiki script.{{efn|The process is described in '' Ol Chemed (A Santali Primer)'', and also in his book ''Ronod (A Santali Grammar in Santali)'', in his description of Ol Chiki's ''chapa'' and ''usara'' styles.}} ''Chhapa'' (Santali for 'print') is used for publication, while ''usaraà'' (Santali for 'quick') is used for handwriting.

=== ''Chhapa'' hand ===
Ol Chiki ''chhapa'', or print style, is the more common style for digital fonts, and is used in the printing of books and newspapers.

=== ''Usaraà''  hand ===
''Usaraà'' or ''usaraà ol'' is the cursive style, and is largely limited to pen and paper, though there are digital ''usaraà'' typefaces. Differences include the diacritic ''ahad'', which in print style is used with {{large|ᱜ}}, {{large|ᱡ}}, {{large|ᱦ}}, {{large|ᱫ}}, and {{large|ᱵ}}, all of which can form ligatures with {{large|ᱽ}} in cursive.<ref name="L205243"/> Further, cursive ''usaraà'' seldom uses several letter-shapes which are formed by combining the letter {{large|ᱦ}} and the four semi-consonants {{large|ᱜ}}, {{large|ᱡ}}, {{large|ᱫ}}, and {{large|ᱵ}} with ''ahad''; instead, these are generally written in a shorter form, as {{large|ᱷ}}.