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From the title, I naively assumed this article would be about people relearning to make legible/beautiful handwritten notes after losing this ability. That is s
by thimabi 2y ago
From the title, I naively assumed this article would be about people relearning to make legible/beautiful handwritten notes after losing this ability. That is something I’m currently struggling with after many years of too much typing and not as much handwriting.
Google’s actual research does help people like me, by making our notes less awful digitally. But I’d love not to be dependent on tech innovations to make my handwriting better.
- moron4hire 2y agoStudy comic lettering. Not saying it's the most efficient way of writing, but the process will teach you to think in terms of strokes and consistency. You can easily develop your own style from there.
- al_borland 2y agoIf you’re serious about this, I’ve stumbled into areas of YouTube with people dedicated to this. Pick a font of how you want your writing to look, and practice, practice, practice. People make available (and sell) special lined sheets to get the height of various things right or help to guide the writer to the perfect slant. You just have to have the time and interest to do the work, much like you probably did when first learning to write.
- thimabi 2y agoHow do you recommend that practice to be like? Simply trying over and over to perfect each letterform on empty lined sheets, based on a reference? I’ve done a few handwriting workbooks, mostly consisting of block letter templates to fill. But each of them is incomplete on its own, and they don’t even share the same font, making it much harder to practice.
- dbtc 2y agoAlso check out the resources on the r/handwriting subreddit.
- prabhu-yu 2y agoGood idea. May you please share youtube link you are referencing?
- poulpy123 2y agoI'm also curious about the special sheets. Maybe I would be able to write legibly for once in my life :D
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- Al-Khwarizmi 2y agoThis has been mentioned somewhere else in the comment thread, but if you want to improve your handwriting, a good way is to use a fountain pen. My handwriting is immensely better with a fountain pen than with ballpoint or gel pens; I suppose partly because the fountain pen forces you to an optimal position and angle (it's much more inflexible about that, you can't just push it against the paper in any angle and expect it to write), and partly because it provides a smoother experience and feedback. You don't need to go overboard, the typical €20-ish Pilot Metro with medium nib or similar is more than enough.
- WillAdams 2y agoI suggested Kate Gladstone's Handwriting Repair site elsethread: https://handwritingrepair.info/ https://handwritingrepair.info/ or see: https://sites.google.com/view/briem/free-books https://sites.google.com/view/briem/free-books or John Howard Benson's lovely _The First Writing Book: Arrighi's Operina_ or Carolyn Knudsen's lovely _An Italic Calligraphy Handbook_ (which is much better than the modest title implies) and get a chisel edge marker or fountain pen.
- fatbird 2y agoI noticed my handwriting was terrible, and consciously improved it by writing slower and being more mindful of writing neatly. A fountain pen helped me slow down, but fundamentally it was just a matter of slowing down and consciously forming nicer characters until it became easy to do so, at which point my speed increased--but I retained the habit of paying enough attention to make nice characters. Deliberate practice (as in worksheets or exercises) is less important than just going as slow as you need to, to make the characters correctly, until your muscle memory builds up and brings back the speed.