What Does Your Handwriting Look Like

[paperskater]

Here's my somewhat hastily done sample. My hand gets shaky due to muscle problems, which makes my handwriting shakier than desired. Oh well. This is written with a Pilot Vanishing Point in Medium using Noodler's Ottoman Azure.

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5178/5424901329_22d4e0813b.jpg

[Hans-Peter Ording]

Hello FPN, long time no see

 

My current handwriting (old German cursive) looks like this. I used Waterman South Sea Blue and I think the first photo matches the ink colour better than the second.

 

Best regards

Hans-Peter

[eversharpness]

Here's my somewhat hastily done sample. My hand gets shaky due to muscle problems, which makes my handwriting shakier than desired. Oh well. This is written with a Pilot Vanishing Point in Medium using Noodler's Ottoman Azure.

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5178/5424901329_22d4e0813b.jpg

 

Your writing is beautiful. Debbie x

[Zaarin]

Hello FPN, long time no see

 

My current handwriting (old German cursive) looks like this. I used Waterman South Sea Blue and I think the first photo matches the ink colour better than the second.

 

Best regards

Hans-Peter

I'd been wondering if anyone still actually used this style, even since I learned it (then forgot it again) whilst beginning to study German some while back. Looks lovely in real modern use.

[Skyppere]

Thank you :embarrassed_smile: The bottom sample is written in Waterman Havana Brown with a Pelikan M200 (OB nib). Here's another sample with the same pen/ink combination. Unfortunately my Greek is rather less elegant but as I started writing I was amazed I still knew this by heart...

 

http://i951.photobucket.com/albums/ad360/AnnaCeciliaPhoto/iliad.jpg

 

 

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That's beautiful! Where can **I** get a pen that writes in Greek? Oh man!

skyppere

[Skyppere]

Here's my somewhat hastily done sample. My hand gets shaky due to muscle problems, which makes my handwriting shakier than desired. Oh well. This is written with a Pilot Vanishing Point in Medium using Noodler's Ottoman Azure.

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5178/5424901329_22d4e0813b.jpg

 

Beautiful writing AND beautiful thoughts! Where is it from? Did you compose it? I love it!

skyppere

[Skyppere]

Here are two samples of my handwriting. But wait, Skyppere, you're probably saying... "we can't really read anything!" Well I need

to be the first to tell you that it's not a lot more ledgible if it was sitting in your lap. I'm leaving it vague like this so I have a prayer

of getting another snailer... full disclosure and people would be running screaming into the night...

 

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r315/skyppere/IMG_0607-1.jpg

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r315/skyppere/DSC_0865-1-1.jpg

[paperskater]

Here's my somewhat hastily done sample. My hand gets shaky due to muscle problems, which makes my handwriting shakier than desired. Oh well. This is written with a Pilot Vanishing Point in Medium using Noodler's Ottoman Azure.

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5178/5424901329_22d4e0813b.jpg

Your writing is beautiful. Debbie x

Beautiful writing AND beautiful thoughts! Where is it from? Did you compose it? I love it!

skyppere

Thank you both for the lovely comments. :embarrassed_smile:

 

skyppere, those are lyrics from a song called "Little Lion Man" by Mumford & Sons. Wonderful band, I love their music.

[paperskater]

Here are two samples of my handwriting. But wait, Skyppere, you're probably saying... "we can't really read anything!" Well I need

to be the first to tell you that it's not a lot more ledgible if it was sitting in your lap. I'm leaving it vague like this so I have a prayer

of getting another snailer... full disclosure and people would be running screaming into the night...

 

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r315/skyppere/IMG_0607-1.jpg

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r315/skyppere/DSC_0865-1-1.jpg

Yeah, I can't really read anything...

 

...but what stunning photography!

[mbrossar]

Can't say my handwriting is as impressive as most of the samples here, but I'll throw in a sample. For what it's worth, the whole sample is written on Tops Docket Gold with a Pelikan M205 using Sailor Nano Blue-Black. The first two stanzas are a stub (steel). The second two stanzas are an XXF (steel).

 

Personally, I prefer the overall look of the cursive, but I think the print is easier to read. I am not enamored with either of them, but I'm working on improving both (the handwriting, not falling in love with it).

Edited February 8, 2011 by mbrossar

[stefanv]

The first two stanzas are a stub (steel). The second two stanzas are an XXF (steel).

 

I think the XXF works better for you. Your handwriting is quite small, and looks too "thick" (IMO) with the stub nib.

[Skyppere]

Here are two samples of my handwriting. But wait, Skyppere, you're probably saying... "we can't really read anything!" Well I need

to be the first to tell you that it's not a lot more ledgible if it was sitting in your lap. I'm leaving it vague like this so I have a prayer

of getting another snailer... full disclosure and people would be running screaming into the night...

 

http://i147.photobuc.../IMG_0607-1.jpg

http://i147.photobuc...SC_0865-1-1.jpg

Yeah, I can't really read anything...

 

...but what stunning photography!

thank you! I'm going to see out that song!

cheers

skyppere

[Hans-Peter Ording]

I'd been wondering if anyone still actually used this style, even since I learned it (then forgot it again) whilst beginning to study German some while back. Looks lovely in real modern use.

Thanks for your comment.

My sisters and my grandmas can read it, so I can even use it for letters and postcards from time to time.

 

Hans-Peter

[mbrossar]

The first two stanzas are a stub (steel). The second two stanzas are an XXF (steel).

 

I think the XXF works better for you. Your handwriting is quite small, and looks too "thick" (IMO) with the stub nib.

 

Thanks for the comments. I was starting to think the same thing. I liked the line variation of the stub, but it often feels too thick.

 

I have a flex dip pen on the way for my next experiment. I'm thinking ultimately to look for an XF or XXF flex nib, but my plan is to check it out relatively inexpensively with a dip pen.

[caliken]

It's taking a long time, but at last my handwriting seems to be loosening up a bit. For me, the secret seems to be - to write in a hurry with a pen that's almost dry!

This is a slight enlargement. The envelope is 8 1/2" wide.

 

caliken

 

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd289/caliken_2007/Graphicenvelope901.jpg

Edited February 12, 2011 by caliken

[beak]

It's taking a long time, but at last my handwriting seems to be loosening up a bit. For me, the secret seems to be - to write in a hurry with a pen that's almost dry!

This is a slight enlargement. The envelope is 8 1/2" wide.

 

caliken

 

 

Dear Caliken

I am pleased to see this sample, though I have lost the previous posts that prompted it. I say this because I find the first two lines here very attractive and friendly-looking, whereas I find the more strict or formal styles rather intimidating to view. That is not to say that the more formal work is not exemplary; but merely a personal reaction, for what it's worth. It is encouraging to the rest of us that even someone with your skills still has things to learn!

Edited February 12, 2011 by beak

[Skyclad]

For better (or most likely worse, lol), I present to you; My Chicken Scrawl and a Parker 45!

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5171/5440328009_458dfb9550_b.jpg

 

This is my handwriting in all it's raw glory after a month and a half of semi-nightly practicing on penmanship improvement.

[beak]

For better (or most likely worse, lol), I present to you; My Chicken Scrawl and a Parker 45!

 

 

This is my handwriting in all it's raw glory after a month and a half of semi-nightly practicing on penmanship improvement.

It's certainly legible. The only thing I looked twice at was the word none, because the upstroke to the n made it look like an m for a moment.

 

Poe's A Dream Within a Dream always presents me with a problem; I think the two verses are the wrong way round! Anyone else have thoughts on this?

[Skyclad]

It's certainly legible. The only thing I looked twice at was the word none, because the upstroke to the n made it look like an m for a moment.

 

Poe's A Dream Within a Dream always presents me with a problem; I think the two verses are the wrong way round! Anyone else have thoughts on this?

 

 

I have no idea why I do my M's and N's like that.. just seems right to me.

 

And yes, I definitely agree with you about the verses.

[HDoug]

It's taking a long time, but at last my handwriting seems to be loosening up a bit. For me, the secret seems to be - to write in a hurry with a pen that's almost dry!

This is a slight enlargement. The envelope is 8 1/2" wide.

 

caliken

 

Wow, it looks like the handwriting of a ... calligrapher! I'm sure the recipient saved the envelope.

 

Doug