Re: OT More pens

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> You should look at my webpage, especially at the page "Ecriture et
> Phonologie" of my Azak. I scanned tables of the characters of the Azak
> script with their names in Roman script using my handwriting. It hasn't
> much evolved since I made this page. Please tell me if my handwriting
> looks
> "European" to you or not, so that I get an idea of what you mean :)) .
Fortunately, this very topic is simultaneously being discussed on qalam,
the writing-system mailing list (a Yahoo! Groups list, BTW, and recommended
to people interested in natscripts).

Here's a picture of what I, at least, was taught in an American school.
John Hudson, a very knowledgeable type designer to be found on qalam
as well as the Unicode mailing list, characterizes it as an 18th-century
round hand, designed for fountain-pen writing, and rather foolish in the
world of ballpoint pens.

http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/10846.gif

Here's another image of it:

http://www.schoolfonts.com/printouts/ZCursiveHandwriting.gif

Here is the closely related D'Nealian style:

http://www.abcteach.com/DNealian/cursivechart1.htm

Here's the discussion from which these links come:

http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/10808.html

Finally, here is an Icelandic page (written in English) explaining in
thorough detail how to write italic hand, which Hudson also learned
as a child in Wales, and which he at least believes to be far better
suited to ballpoint pen, pencil, and similar fixed-line-width devices.

http://briem.ismennt.is/4/4.1.1a/4.1.1.1.quick.htm

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