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This is remarkably thorough! But it's missing one very common case: lowercase a vs. u (or v). If you're trying to make your handwriting more legible, don't skip
by ch3cooh 2y ago
This is remarkably thorough! But it's missing one very common case: lowercase a vs. u (or v). If you're trying to make your handwriting more legible, don't skip this case-- figure out a way to be intentional about it because it's so common. :)
Here's mine:
My u's have the little curved tail to distinguish them clearly from v's. And then, to further differentiate a vs. u, I deviate from the norms for fonts and make my handwritten lowercase a look like a half-height uppercase a with a curved top.
Honestly I only really use about 1/4 of the tips in this cheat sheet. But, the a vs. u trick is where I actually make the most impact by being intentional about my handwritten 'font' (with l/i vs 1, t vs. +, and x vs. × being the runner ups).
And the main reason I don't use the 'a' that fonts like this HN font use is that can look a lot like a 2 with the loop when drawn quickly (and I draw my 2's with loops so that they don't look like uncrossed z's or equal signs with an 'I failed to pick up my pen completely ' diagonal) ;-P