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simont ([personal profile] simont) wrote2009-01-02 04:22 pm

Handwriting

[Poll #1324167]

eta: I forgot to say so specifically, but I hope the people who have ticked "something else interesting" will say what it was :-)

[identity profile] antinomy.livejournal.com 2009-01-02 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I was tought typical French copperplate at school which would have demonstrated all of your cursive features. However I rebelled against this fairly rapidly, though some features persist. A rapidly scribbled round of quick brown foxes reveals the following -
I do my 'g' essentially in figure of 8 format such that the downstroke originates from the left rather than the right of the top loop.
I tend to top-link to letters with rising strokes, eg 'the' will have a connection between the bar of the 't' and the top of the 'h'.
My numeric '1' has the serif-like top tick, but generally not the bottom horizontal unless I'm trying to disambiguate for people who don't put crossbars through their 7s!

[identity profile] antinomy.livejournal.com 2009-01-02 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I should add I suppose that despite a decade and a half (at least!) of neglect, the muscle memory for perfect copperplate is still in my hand!