Penmanship Advice

[Correction]

You ever try good posture while wriring? You'd be surprised how much easier it is to write legibly if you're sitting upright with a writing surface at a comfortable height in front of you.

[Alleya]

If you want better handwriting you just have to practice. Go slow and take your time making sure every letter is clear and properly rendered. Everyone is always in a hurry these days, but it won't kill you to take an extra 15 seconds to slow down and make sure your writing is legible.

As to cursive, I write everything that way personally. It looks worlds better than my print and is much faster.

[Colenzo]

I am the printing master. I like to put the little swirly cursive tails on all my g's and y's lol

[Atreides]

for filling out forms, if you try printing in all capital letters you may have an easier time going slowly and writing legibly

[Lucavi]

Master calligraphy and and psyche people the hell out with your l337 p3nz0r skillz.

[willriker]

print in all capital letters. They always come out neater than when you try to write with lowe case letters. Also, the capital letters all have unique shapes. They are more unique than the lower case letters.

with sloppy hand writting an 'a' can look like an 'o', an 'n' can look like a 'm' or even an 'r'. But, its almost impossible for a reader to confuse an 'A' with an 'O'. In addition, it is almost impossible for a reader to confuse an 'N' with a 'M' or even an 'R'.

its one of the tricks you pick up from drafting books. There is a reason that every drawing, made to military specifications, uses all capital lettering. During the time before computers, it made it very hard for the to confuse what is written. This is especially important when you consider that many people will be reading these drawings/schematics for years to come. Screw Script, Screw lower case. If you want to set the first letter of a name apart from other letters, simply make the first letter larger than all the others. But, this trick with writing in all capital letters is very handy.

[Pharaun]

I've been told many times that I have the best handwriting for a guy that they have seen. This is because I made it a point to have nice handwriting and constantly practiced that when younger. One of the few things that actually makes me mad is when I see something that's handwritten but you can't make out what it says because it's either so god damned fancy full of loops and swirls and shit (women and old people) or just one big damned squiggle (men).

It will take active effort on your part to improve your writing. Part of the problem is that you get so used to writing in a certain way that unless you focus on trying to be better you just slip into the writing habits that you have developed. The best thing you can do is just write out the alphabet over and over again trying to break the old habits and form new ones. It may take a while but it will improve.

[ZarakiKujata]

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Page...reep-doubt.jpg

Don't write with a ballpoint pen cause then you press down on the paper and it makes your handwriting look like a monkeys.

[Cadsuane]

An implement you're comfortable with really helps.

http://www.bazaarwala.com/images/uniball%20eye.jpg

These (uni-ball) are simply the best disposable pens. I hate writing with anything else.

[willriker]

An implement you're comfortable with really helps.

http://www.bazaarwala.com/images/uniball%20eye.jpg

These (uni-ball) are simply the best disposable pens. I hate writing with anything else.

omg qtf

writing with those is almost as good as sex

[ronin sparthos]

print in all capital letters. They always come out neater than when you try to write with lowe case letters. Also, the capital letters all have unique shapes. They are more unique than the lower case letters.

with sloppy hand writting an 'a' can look like an 'o', an 'n' can look like a 'm' or even an 'r'. But, its almost impossible for a reader to confuse an 'A' with an 'O'. In addition, it is almost impossible for a reader to confuse an 'N' with a 'M' or even an 'R'.

its one of the tricks you pick up from drafting books. There is a reason that every drawing, made to military specifications, uses all capital lettering. During the time before computers, it made it very hard for the to confuse what is written. This is especially important when you consider that many people will be reading these drawings/schematics for years to come. Screw Script, Screw lower case. If you want to set the first letter of a name apart from other letters, simply make the first letter larger than all the others. But, this trick with writing in all capital letters is very handy.

I agree with this basically because in college classes, the best professors in terms of legibility are the ones that write everything in uppercase characters.

Script is very hit or miss, you either do it right or your letters look like one big fucking squiggle so I just stopped doing it around the beginning of middle school. Nothing pisses me off more than writing notes and trying to decypher if an 'n' is an 'm' or a 'f' is a 't' because someone is trying to write in script instead of print.

Most handwriting mistakes (including my own) are in the lowercase letters.

[Lyrai]

My handwriting has gotten better, to worse, to better again, to worse, and to better again. It drops in quality sharply though when I'm trying to write too fast or too much. My handwriting was the worst in my Japanese class in High school, where I took notes in English and in Japanese. No one new what they meant besides me because it was all jumbled. My friends quickly stopped asking me for notes if they had missed a day, lol.

I don't write as often by hand anymore, but I do still like to, and it has taken some effort. If it's really that bad, you'll probably have to go letter by letter to retrain yourself rather than just identifying the worst parts of your writing.

[Not Kuno]

Anyone have a neat alphabet somewhere? Google just brings up text letters, I don't like a lot of the font "text" for actual writing (like how the "a" looks for example).

[Khamsin]

I have shit cursive, but pretty good printing. Which is a good thing, too, because when I mark up engineering plans for our drafters, they need to be able to actually read it. Or when I write something on a set of plans for a client.

My print is actually fairly close to the style of lettering used by our plotters when printing out plans. And perhaps not so coincidentally, it's also similar to the style of lettering taught back in school when I was getting my degree.

But I seriously need to work on a better looking signature. It pretty much looks like a big cursive A (the first letter in my name) followed by a scribble line that trails out. If all I signed were checks or forms, it wouldn't matter to me that much. But when I stamp plans, I have to sign across the stamp and it helps to have it actually look like a signature and not like I'm crossing it out.

[Jefe]

My print and cursive are crap, and then if I take my time it looks like I was trying too hard ;/ I want a natural and nice-looking flow ;x

[Electro]

If I'm not typing I write in all capital letters. My handwriting is very small and I dunno why. On a standard line on a check. I could write "Jody's Family Restaurant" on about 1/4th of the line. People always squint to see it. Have always written really small. On the other hand my signature is gigantic and looks like gibberish.

[Akucaen]

An implement you're comfortable with really helps.

http://www.bazaarwala.com/images/uniball%20eye.jpg

These (uni-ball) are simply the best disposable pens. I hate writing with anything else.

+1 for their awesomeness.

My handwriting is terrible though. My transition to college worked out out so I literally have written MAYBE a paragraph in the last three years. A few weeks ago I had to write something out and it was fucking awful. I had literally forgotten how to write a few cursive letters and had to think about it (mostly Q & Z caps.)

It never helped that I was supposed to be left-handed, but in the infinite wisdom of my elementary school, I was taught to write with my right hand. (RIGHT IS RIGHT, AMIRITE!? Fucking Texas education system) As such, my handwriting has always been terrible, but it helped me become fully ambidextrous at tasks I wasn't as a [younger than then] child.

[Moss]

I don't get it. You were "supposed" to be left handed? If you were learning to write for the first time I don't see how it would make a difference. And writing right-handed makes more sense for obvious reasons.

[Akucaen]

I was exclusively left-handed at everything I did prior to learning to write. I was taught to write with my right hand only (no, literally. They told me I couldn't/shouldn't write with my left.) They did everything in their power to encourage right-handedness... then I was moved to a GT school in 3rd grade and they all wtf'ed pretty badly at that.

[Baha]

My handwriting is terrible though. My transition to college worked out out so I literally have written MAYBE a paragraph in the last three years. A few weeks ago I had to write something out and it was fucking awful. I had literally forgotten how to write a few cursive letters and had to think about it (mostly Q & Z caps.)

Had the same thing happen, my handwriting was never great, but passable. In college I barely had to write (first year had great course papers, next few years had a big emphasis on practical classes) so my writing got terrible. At the end of the year I had to decipher my own writing from my notes. :/

Now I just write all caps print if anyone else needs to be able to read my shit and I can't print just type it up and print it out.

It never helped that I was supposed to be left-handed, but in the infinite wisdom of my elementary school, I was taught to write with my right hand. (RIGHT IS RIGHT, AMIRITE!? Fucking Texas education system) As such, my handwriting has always been terrible, but it helped me become fully ambidextrous at tasks I wasn't as a [younger than then] child.

Wow, my grandfather used to tell me kids who were left-handed were forced to write right-handed with some judicious knuckle rapping, had no idea they still did that. I mean, that was pre WWII, when they still practiced writing on slates. :/