 Apart from black, some orange ink is used for dotted decoration.The classical tradition was late to use capital letters for initials at all (in Roman texts it is often very hard to even separate the words), and though by this time they were in common use in Italy, they were often set in the left margin, as though to cut them off from the rest of the text.The insular tendency for the decoration to lunge into the text, and take over more and more of it, was a radical innovation.