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The funny thing is that the grey quotes in the article look very close to Cursive Italic, which is faster than American Cursive(what we all know as regular curs
by phaus 9y ago
The funny thing is that the grey quotes in the article look very close to Cursive Italic, which is faster than American Cursive(what we all know as regular cursive) and Manuscript + it is just as easy to read as Manuscript(print). If we actually cared about efficiency and effectiveness in handwriting we would have switched to this a long time ago.
I do calligraphy as a hobby. I'm going to time myself but I'm already 100% certain I can write much faster with Cursive Italic in spite of the fact that I spend just as much time writing printed characters.
American Cursive looks very nice when done properly. However, it requires near-perfect execution to be legible.
- wrycoder 9y agoThe sample of author Ball's writing at the end of the article looks like Italic Cursive, which I use myself. The whole idea of cursive is to allow ligatures in fast, personal writing, simply to make it fast. That became stylized in roundhand/copperplate script, later in Palmer. I hadn't run across the use of "manuscript" for "printing" until this thread. Apparently this is being done to elevate what is now considered pejorative. "Manuscript" is (was) a general term referring to a handwritten document, not its style, e.g. half uncial. Judging from the posts here, I'd say handwriting is doomed.
- Bromskloss 9y agoI never knew that there were all these names for different types of handwriting. I'm trying to sort them out. What is the difference between Cursive Italic and American Cursive? And what is Manuscript, except something written by hand?
- hudibras 9y agoI used this book (I see that it's now out-of-print, though) to improve my handwriting by using italic. You can see some examples inside the book. https://www.amazon.com/Write-Now-Complete-Program-Handwriting/dp/0876781180/ https://www.amazon.com/Write-Now-Complete-Program-Handwritin...