Please post your cursive alphabet here

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[TXKat]

Whoa! I need to tame mine down, lol! You all have legible handwriting! Mine is out of control. If I can snap with phone and upload, will try. (Yikes!)
I am embarrassed to share this...it's a mess!!!

 

 

 

(Pssst. How do I rotate this?)

Edited March 24, 2015 by TXKat

[Tasmith]

Whoa! I need to tame mine down, lol! You all have legible handwriting! Mine is out of control. If I can snap with phone and upload, will try. (Yikes!)

I am embarrassed to share this...it's a mess!!!

 

 

 

(Pssst. How do I rotate this?)

Very nice!

[Broxi]

Looking on this forum I clearly have some work to do in which to improve my penmanship

[sakayume]

Here is mine. I'm very much a finger writer though.

 

 

[mrcharlie]

 

That looks nice; is it basically what you learned in School or much changed (specifically the majuscule/capitals)? The only criticism I'd have is how similar the 'L' and 'Z' are (almost all my concerns with any cursive style are related to readability/being able to easily be sure of what letter any given squiggle is). If I saw you write, say "Samuel Z. Jackson" without your upper 'L' on the same page to compare it to, I'd probably think you were writing "Samuel L. Jackson".

 

I don't like my 'M' and 'N' and I think I will work on new ones based on what you have here but stylistically closer to the rest of Zaner-Blosser. Also I really like the looks of your 'G' and 'Q' and 'A'.

 

Thanks for posting your alphabet.

[sakayume]

 

That looks nice; is it basically what you learned in School or much changed (specifically the majuscule/capitals)? The only criticism I'd have is how similar the 'L' and 'Z' are (almost all my concerns with any cursive style are related to readability/being able to easily be sure of what letter any given squiggle is). If I saw you write, say "Samuel Z. Jackson" without your upper 'L' on the same page to compare it to, I'd probably think you were writing "Samuel L. Jackson".

 

I don't like my 'M' and 'N' and I think I will work on new ones based on what you have here but stylistically closer to the rest of Zaner-Blosser. Also I really like the looks of your 'G' and 'Q' and 'A'.

 

Thanks for posting your alphabet.

 

The cursive style I learnt in school was Victorian Modern Cursive (or something similar), but the capitals have been borrowed from all over the place as I don't remember the original capitals I learnt (I stopped writing in cursive for a long time when I moved and none of my new schoolmates wrote in cursive). I also vacillate between various forms of lowercase 'r', 'f' and 'p'.

 

I never noticed the similarity of 'L' and 'Z' until you mentioned it. I think that's why 'Z' has the extra horizontal bar? I always did wonder why that extra stroke was there in the letter.

[mrcharlie]

The cursive style I learnt in school was Victorian Modern Cursive (or something similar), but the capitals have been borrowed from all over the place as I don't remember the original capitals I learnt (I stopped writing in cursive for a long time when I moved and none of my new schoolmates wrote in cursive). I also vacillate between various forms of lowercase 'r', 'f' and 'p'.

 

Regardless of where you came up with them, your capitals mostly look nice and work well with the minuscules. Your handwriting looks nice from that sample.

 

Thanks for the reply, especially for the link! FWIW to anyone else reading this, a free installable font is available on that page as well as PDFs showing the recommended strokes for the letters and an example of the letters joined up in two different methods.

 

I don't know if it is different now from when you were in school, but the majuscules on that page are just basically "print" majuscules. IE they are probably not different or not much different than what you learned for printing, which may be why you don't remember your original cursive capitals (ie they weren't new/different or especially "cursive").

 

Most modern English language cursives (most "western" cursives really) are pretty similar in the minuscules, and if I were forced to change from what I know to this it wouldn't be very painful. While I do dislike the "open" minuscule 'p', and am not wild about the required lift for the 'x', I could live with them if I were trying to blend into the Aussie population.

Edited April 10, 2015 by mrcharlie

[sakayume]

Most modern English language cursives (most "western" cursives really) are pretty similar in the minuscules, and if I were forced to change from what I know to this it wouldn't be very painful. While I do dislike the "open" minuscule 'p', and am not wild about the required lift for the 'x', I could live with them if I were trying to blend into the Aussie population.

 

I don't think anyone still writes in this style! At least, I don't know anyone who does, and it's probably one of the first things discarded when leaving school. I'm glad I'm not alone in my dislike for the "open" minuscule 'p', as you call it, though I find it joins more easily subsequent letters than a "closed" 'p'.

 

I'm actually surprised that the 'x' requires two strokes (i.e. a pen lift), as I've always written it without lifting my pen, by sort of tracing back the bottom leftmost bit of the letter.

 

I've noticed from examples here on this forum that the letter shapes of American cursive styles seemed to be more Italic-y (though I'm sure someone will be come along and correct me!), whereas European examples seemed more rounded. Personally, I've always admired the French cursive style (and also the Catalonian example in a French cursive pdf that was posted somewhere on the forum). The Victorian Modern Cursive in the link I actually find rather ugly. It's too simple, too close to printed letter shapes and not loopy enough for my tastes.

[tdotfp]

 

 

p.s. Yes I do know that I forgot an extra 'o'

Edited April 10, 2015 by tdotfp

[dms525]

 

 

David

[mrcharlie]

I know I posted mine earlier, but here it is again only 1) with a 0.6 mm Nemosine stub, and 2) using the 'M' and 'N' I'm trying to adopt, but which is far from habit.

 

 

p.s. Yes 'Inkster' is a real place.

Edited April 12, 2015 by mrcharlie

[maja88g]

Hi

 

Here is how mine currently looks...

 

 

 

 

 

Used Noodlers X-Feather, Modified Noodlers Apache Sunset, Modified Noodlers Cactus Fruit Eel

 

 

[Dronak]

I'm pretty sure my cursive writing is essentially that of the Zaner-Bloser (Original) shown at the bottom of http://www.drawyourworld.com/blog/examples-of-handwriting-styles.html. Of course, at my usual writing speed, it's nowhere near that neat, and I've probably got some small variations that I use in some places. Overall though, that looks like the script alphabet I learned.

 

Edit: I just realized this is in the calligraphy section, and for calligraphy. I normally use the basic Gothic alphabet from Sheaffer's instruction book in a set I got as a child; I web searched and found images at http://www.handheld.com.vn/threads/sheaffer-calligraphy-introduction.287526/.

Edited April 19, 2015 by Dronak

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