My #handwriting and #FountainPen story, in response to @MsHearthWitch and other folks who have asked:
As a kid I learned Zaner-Bloser cursive teaching script[1] in U.S. elementary school and then proceeded to never use it again. (Ballpoint and pencil just aren’t really suited for cursive.) I switched permanently to print, then oblique italic in early adulthood, which is still my daily handwriting.
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[1] Overview of U.S. teaching scripts: https://www.howjoyful.com/lettering-cursive/
When I started using fountain pens, I quickly figured out that cursive actually makes sense with fountain pens. So I looked at a few guides, at first I didn’t really know what I was looking for and just experimented. I looked at a bunch of the classic U.S.[2], English [3], and German[4] cursives and kind of picked what I liked.
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[2] US cursives: https://loopsandtails.com/cursive/
[3] English round hand: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Universal_Penman_Etc/lHQdZONVcIkC
[4] German old teaching script: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lateinische_Ausgangsschrift_1953_plain.svg#/media/Datei:Lateinische_Ausgangsschrift_1953_plain.svg
So I guess in the end this is a round hand derivative with mostly Zaner-Bloser as a base, combined with some Spencerian[5] and Palmer[6] capitals.
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[5] Spencerian at Loops and Tails: https://loopsandtails.com/spencerian/
[6] Palmer Method: https://palmermethod.com/
@paradoxmo Just wanted to say: thank you for posting this.
After many years of writing more and more unrecognizably, I just recently started to make an effort to develop a nice handwriting (with a fountain pen) and am still looking for a cursive writing style to aim for.
paradoxmo
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