Tim Brookes
An entire industry would like you to believe that your handwriting is slow, inefficient, illegible, and ugly. Find out what you have to lose if you believe them in my new book By Hand. https://www.endangeredalphabets.com/by-hand/
Nov 16 at 3:58amWeb
Show threadNeil KandalgaonkarNov 16

@Endangeredalphabets I live in a neighborhood with a lot of art and music venues. More and more I see them posting hand-drawn posters, with an intentionally scribbly aesthetic, like someone just did it freehand with a sharpie and an 8.5x11". I assume this is a reaction to "everything computer"?

Though... sometimes you can tell it was born digital: some exactly copied and transformed elements

Show threadTim BrookesNov 16
@neilk That's really interesting. It's like in the punk days of the late Seventies and early Eighties when people would use photocopiers with the contrast tweaked to look as unglamorous and anti-Industry as possible.
Show threadNeil KandalgaonkarNov 16

@Endangeredalphabets Yup, we are of the same generation & I know what you mean.

Art kids probably have seen examples of those. I wonder if they are aware that this was itself a reaction

Show threadtuːkmʌnˈdNov 16
@Endangeredalphabets huh my immediate reaction to this is that my handwriting actually is all those things!
Dysgraphia means that handwriting has always been a barrier to expressing myself and typing frees my mind from the shackles of forming letters one by one. My writing when handwritten is not just physically messier but actually less coherent.
Being able to type pretty much everything these days has been an essential accessibility feature for me. So while I can appreciate that handwriting is an art we should preserve it’s not one you’ll see me participating in, and it’s not one that’s quite as universal as you describe.
Show threadTim BrookesNov 16
@tookmund I really appreciate this response, as I am not dyslexic and I need your perspective.