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Hi, I am interested in refining my handwriting. When I was in grade school, I was taught the cursive handwriting. I believe it was the Zaner-Bloser system or a variant of it. As I grew up, I made a switch to print block letters, and eventually adopted a mixture of print block letters with some cursive. It was okay, practical, and legible, although it wasn't very pretty. Recently, in an attempt to improve my handwriting, I returned to the cursive system. I thought the ZB system that I was taught as a child was a bit too plain and not good looking. I tried the Ornamental and the Spencerian systems from the IAMPETH website, but they are a bit too flowery for every day uses. I am looking for somewhere in between: an elegant-looking cursive system that looks practical, as if the writing is done without any conscious effort by the writer to embellish the letters and yet it looks pretty. If you guys have any recommendation of such system, please share. A sample of handwriting or an alphabet chart would be great. Thanks. Henry