> But nobody does those! A "personalized mixture of cursive and manuscript" is how I write, I just call it cursive, or "partial cursive". But it says that is fa

> But nobody does those! A "personalized mixture of cursive and manuscript" is how I write, I just call it cursive, or "partial cursive". But it says that is faster, and presumably students wouldn't learn that if they hadn't learned full cursive at first? I ended up developing something like that in 2009. By that point, I'd long since forgotten everything I was taught in elementary school and just wrote everything in all caps. But I was starting to develop an interest in typography, and I wanted to improve my handwriting. So I started studying italic serif fonts to see how I could do something similar by hand, with the restriction that most letters should be written in one stroke. I found out that my attempts at replicating serifs in handwriting without increasing the stroke count actually had a technical term: semiserif. What I came up with looks kind of like D'Nealian, but with some significant differences. The biggest one is that I put semiserifs on the beginnings of letters and not just on the ends. Another is that I use a two-story g (and I wrote it with an ear for a while before eliminating it). And my z is particularly swashy.