Calligraphy -- "beautiful writing" -- is an art. It requires time to practice and a desire to do so. I encourage everyone to have an artistic hobby, and you can

Calligraphy -- "beautiful writing" -- is an art. It requires time to practice and a desire to do so. I encourage everyone to have an artistic hobby, and you can start on lettering with pens and paper you already have. Ordinary writing is a tool. Your tools should be appropriate to your work. To maximize readability, computers with keyboards are amazingly efficient. When they aren't quite what we want, the good alternatives are: - dry-erase markers on whiteboard. Not conducive to standard handwriting. (There are methods to get artistic results, but they are not the same techniques as ink and paper.) - chalk on chalkboards. Also not suitable for standard handwriting, and increasingly replaced by whiteboards. - small notes on post-its, in notebooks, on forms, and in marginalia. Handwriting works here, but using a drafting letterform is more consistently readable, easier to scale, and you can teach yourself to do it acceptably well in a few scattered ten minute increments over a week.