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This is very relatable. My handwriting has all kinds of problems. It's like I tried to take all the best parts of cursive and print, and combine them into a per
by warent 7y ago
This is very relatable. My handwriting has all kinds of problems. It's like I tried to take all the best parts of cursive and print, and combine them into a perfect in-between style. Unfortunately the result is as far from perfect as I think any handwriting can be.
It looks like a combination between Elvish handwriting and the stuff you can find in the Voynich manuscript, but with all the elegance of Gregg Shorthand. I've somehow developed all kinds of weird habits. For example, beginning all my lines from the top and drawing down, or looping letter tails (like g and y) well beyond the line below them.
My ~90-100 WPM typing speed makes me feel okay about all this though because it's pretty rare that handwriting has much practical application these days.
- thequux 7y agoInteresting; I made the same attempt, but based it off of italics and then got sloppy so that it would look like cursive to a teacher that refused to accept printed homework. All of my lines start from the top, my descenders and ascenders are huge to compensate for the miniscule x-height, and my "f" is an "l" with a "y"-style loop on it. (The "f" started out as a long "s" with a line through it; the line ended up joining up with the bottom of the "s" and then the curve at the top withered away) It turns out that it looks reasonably nice in a font[1] (except for my horrible keming) because most of the ugliness came from the characters all being irregular. [1]: https://imgur.com/a/cggDt6e https://imgur.com/a/cggDt6e