Italic Or Cursive

[akustyk]

Doesn't cursive just mean joined-up? It's not a specific style of writing as such. Italic writing can be cursive too. It is not an either/or. Do you mean italic or copperplate (or any of the other names of the slanty, loopy style e.g. English roundhand, Spencerian, Palmer etc). In the loopy or not loopy debate, I think not loopy is more legible, so I base my handwriting on italic letter forms, but I join them up too (cursive italic).

I completely agree! I also think that not loopy is much more legible, and I also prefer to write a kind of joined up italic.