5 Handwriting Styles for your Fountain Pen Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- If a fountain pen alone cannot instantly improve a person's handwriting, what will? In this handwriting tutorial, Tom shares the three "P's" of handwriting improvement and 5 styles you could practice (one of the p's) today to improve your writing ability.
Update 02/03/2020 - Congrats to Alexa Renee for being picked as the winner of our Sailor 1911 giveaway! Thank you to all who left a comment and entered. May your handwriting practice be inky and fun.
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The basic print style is the favorite for me. That's how much work my penmanship needs, haha #stayinky
Congrats for being randomly picked as the winner of the Sailor 1911 fountain pen!!! Message me (Tom) by sending an e-mail to tom (at) goldspot (dot) com [trying to avoid the spammers]
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Cursive is my favorite with a fountain pen. My handwriting has improved dramatically since discovering the joy of journaling on fountain pen friendly paper.
My favorite writing is a combination of cursive and print that I learned when I was in school in England. It's fast and easy to read and not as loopy as true cursive. Looks really neat when using a stub nib!
I've falling in love with cursive handwriting again. I purchased a pink lamy and love using it.
Cursive handwriting is my favorite handwriting style :) - I’m new to fountain pens and own just one. I have always loved journals and one day after reading years of my journals, I realized that I always mentioned and described what kind of pen I was using. In most cases my pens were simple ballpoint pens or perhaps a roller ball. I am currently an Officer and I needed a way to relieve stress so I decided it was time to start writing journals again and I wanted to finally use a fountain pen. So I purchased my FIRST fountain pen about 2 weeks ago. Now I love fountain pens! I do write in cursive as it is the only form I know, but I WANT to learn others and I want a fountain pen to be the pen I use. I actually found your videos on RUclips and it helped me choose my first fountain pen to use. Thank You! I'm happy I'm writing journals again and I know my story will available for others to read long after I am gone.
Edit: I just read the comments and no longer feel original with my choice of style lol!
Cursive is my favorite. I’m old enough to remember being taught the “Palmer” method or cursive writing.
Cursive! Always makes taking notes in class much simpler and quicker.
My favorite handwriting style is Italic handwriting. Despite practicing Italic calligraphy since I was a preteen, I didn't discover Italic handwriting until 2017. I managed to find a couple of instructional workbooks, and starting in January of 2018, I began to learn. What you said in this video is very true--practice and patience are so important, as is building that muscle memory. I practiced nearly every day for 10 to 20 minutes. At about the 6 month mark, the muscle memory kicked in, and the letters started coming out the way I intended. It's such a pleasure now to sit down and write in this graceful, legible style whenever I wish. I still use Italic calligraphy, and my everyday informational handwriting, as well as cursive now and then.
I always gravitate towards cursive. The flow of the lines and flair make my heart swoon. 🖋📓
My favorite is cursive. It is the most natural way for me to write since I was taught in school this way. I am writing more since getting into fountain pens and have been trying to get into bullet journaling. I enjoy making and trying different styles in my writing. The Clairefontaine French Rule paper looks great for handwriting practice. I own a pad and will definitely use it for improving my handwriting.👍🏻
i have really begun to appreciate good penmanship. This year my family and I are planning to communicate to friends, family and business associates in writing. the feedback was immediate and very gratifying. Thanks for the great content!
My favorite style of handwriting is cursive. It turns something as ordinary as writing into something fun. And there's always something that you can improve yourself on when it comes to cursive.
Cursive is my favorite style of writing...learn it in school . Very happy that I was started in life using this style.
Cursive is my day to day favorite. I am currently earning my BA Degree in Sociology, and I take tons of notes. Cursive has improved my legibility and writing speed.
As an older architect I've spent God knows how many hours of my life hand lettering drawings in the old days. Now I "fake it" with a computer style that imitates hand printing. Recently I've begun keeping my journal in cursive using a flex nib. I really enjoy being able to express myself again!
My favorite handwriting style is cursive. I've been practicing almost everyday with a safari I got from you all recently. I think cursive is very free and expressive. I stopped using cursive in school when I did not have to use it anymore. Everyday practice is helpful, but important. Persistence is key.
I find when taking notes for work or in church I use a combination of cursive and printing. Taking time is certainly key to better writing, the quicker I attempt to write the sloppier it tends to end up.
Thanks for the great videos and product line at Goldspot.
As an IT person my writing looked like a doctor’s. At the beginning of the lockdown I hauled out my old fountain pen from Schaefer and started. In two years I have a significantly improved writing and 36 fountain pens. I am proud of my writing now. I am now experimenting with different nibs. Thanks for this video.
My favorite is cursive. There are times I need to use more of a print style, but I always come back to the cursive writing. With so much technology around every day, it's nice to have something with a bit more 'human' touch and unique style...
I am passionate about beautiful cursive handwriting. As a child, I used to practice hours and hours in my own time, trying to copy the script on historical documents I found in encyclopedias (yes, I know that means I am really stinking old).
Thanks for the videos, I really enjoy them
I have been practicing cursive hand writing since 4 months ,I saw great improvement from the day I started, I vote for cursive hand writing.
Cursive is my style of choice.. its elegant and flows easily and is easy on the eyes. It also looks professional and shows you have put thought into your writing.
My favorite style is cursive for sure. It's the style that allows personalization and as an avoid pen paller i love to see the different cursive styles from people all over the world
My favorite is cursive writing.... and I do enjoy your videos specially this kind of videos
If I have time, my favorite handwriting style is still CURSIVE, especially with a stub or cursive. For everyday writing, I still use cursive! (I am past 70. My father, educated in the 1920s in rural America, not only took handwriting in elementary school, but when (after 8th grade) he was selected and given a scholarship for a Southern Illinois Normal (now Southern Illinois University; schools to teach in the one-room country schools), he had a semester-long college class in cursive. The flairs he wrote with were amazing to read (but not always the easiest to read). :)
My favorite style is print! Steady lines with good control makes for outstanding print, not just cursive.
Cursive is now my favourite hand writing style, connecting them and swoops are fun
I love cursive, actually, I've noticed that is a valuable skill that almost everybody will notice and appreciate it. For many years, I've been using it, always I've gotten good comments about my handwriting. For me, this is an art!
My favorite style is a combination of cursive and printing. It is a bit hard to describe but is looks like a stylized print or a simple cursive. At any rate, I love to put pen to paper and have a nice assortment of pens and inks that I play with. I recently purchased a stub nibbed pen and am really enjoying the style of writing it produces.
Cursive is my favorite style of writing. I have taken a leaf from you book, so to speak and practice writing everyday in a small diary i bought. This way i write with a purpose. At the end of the year i will compare the writing in January with the writing in December.
Cursive is my favourite and go to style. I'm Canadian and learned cursive in grade 3 with a dip pen and ink. That was over 60 years ago. Every student had these writing supplies at their desk.
My favorite handwriting style is actually pretty much the one use myself. I write in a mix of cursive and print. It looks very consistent, but it is sometimes a little bit hard to read for some, because there is quite a lot going on on the page. I just sometimes wish my capital G would look better and some letters to be more consistent.
My favorite style of writing is a coworkers block print. They worked in a bunch of technical positions where they ended up hand drafting blue prints and other technical drawings like that. In his 80s his writing was so small and crisp you would swear it just came off a plotter.
I print when I write because I finally have achieved the point where others can read it.
My favorite is cursive... I just discovered what wonder those little loops could do, thanks for your video...
Modern calligraphy is my current favorite. When you add the line variation and flourishes it looks so pretty and ornate. I'm also liking Spencerian, which I feel has to be written with a fountain or dip pen. You just don't get the same satisfaction writing these scripts with a standard ballpoint pen.
I love all caps with large caps to signify capital letters and small caps for lower case. This takes more time but is easy to read and looks like a typewriter.
Hi Tom. Great video. I have been working on my Spencerian for a year and a half now. You are absolutely right about the slow changes in writing. Even at this stage, if I don't pay attention, I fall right back into my standard cursive which I find ugly and childish. Hopefully at some point that muscle memory will change styles.
Cursive is my favourite style, even though I enjoy also the print. For example if I'm taking notes that I want to share with my collegues I usually prefer print because it often results easier to read. But if I'm writing for myself then cursive all night long, it is such a personal and artistic style and it is quick so that you can follow the flow of your thoughts and just let them go.
I like writing in cursive the best. I want it to be visually appealing so it forces me to slow down a notch. This also allows me a little extra time to think how best to express myself.
Cursive is my favourite writing style . And wow! That 4AM Blue is wonderful!
Cursive with flex. It's amazing how much more interesting the flex makes it.
I really enjoy the cursive style, it let's me write my notes faster but it doesnt hurt that it also looks really fancy.
I love cursive handwriting and use a modified Palmer method, but I make sure to keep the old fashioned capital Q. When my students practice their cursive handwriting in class, it is so quiet because they are concentrating on their strokes and it is wonderful.
Just got into fountain pens as a way to relax after my divorce. After reteaching myself cursive and recieving my orders from Goldspot with a couple of beautiful pens. I am concentrating on modern cursive and slowing down. Thank you again to goldspot for there awesome website great selection and amazing tutorial videos. A sailor 1911 is definitely 1 I want to add to my collection.
Fountain pens were required when I was in school as were writing lessons. So cursive is what we learned. (There was always an enormous blue bottle of ink at the front of the classroom that we filled our pens from). I went back to daily fountain pen use about 10 years ago and will never go back. I think it helps with hand fatigue and carpel tunnel also. But mostly it gives pleasure to a task I do every day as a writer.
Using fountain pens again after a 15-years hiatus made me realize cursive is definitely my favorite style of writing. Nice vid as usual
I just began the "American Cursive Handwriting" course by Michael Sull. At 73 I have decided it is time to improve my penmanship!
Cursive is the best. Once learnt, it is quick and visually very pleasing
Cursive flex writing is my favorite … if only I could do it as beautifully as those on the videos I watch. I guess the 3 P's apply here. Most often I write in cursive with a medium nib, and for a little change, I use a 1.1 - 1.3 mm cursive italic nib.
Love cursive writing - so much more enjoyable and best result. Would absolutely LOVE a Sailor fountain pen, I'd drool over it
Cursive writing has always been my favorite...my goal is to leave behind letters to my children along with my favorite pens and inks
Cursive is my favorite style of writing. In a hurried or casual writing, I will slip in and out of cursive and print. Ever since being taught cursive, I have pretty much used it. What I have noticed the most since using a fountain pen, is that my grip has changed, and am using a much lighter touch. I find using a ballpoint more effort now.
I am trying to improve my cursive handwriting to make it more attractive while still being able to write fast. Good tip to practice 5 mins a day 👍
Agreed- practice and patience are essential for learning and improving one’s handwriting! My life long love of fine paper and pens has developed into a great love and appreciation for fountain pens, and so in recent years I use them to practice my cursive Italic...my new favorite writing style. I learned cursive in school (Palmer method) and have used it most of my life, but I noticed a deterioration in my cursive writing as I aged. Through my attempts over the years to improve my handwriting, I decided to try cursive Italic and love it. Plus, I’ve noticed an improvement in my regular cursive as well. What a pleasure it is to write-especially with fountain pens!
I'm trying to improve my cursive hand. I've begun using my fountain pens at work, using a different one each day. After several weeks, my handwriting is improving. Don't have a favorite pen yet, still working through my Christmas gift pens.
Since rediscovering fountain pens last year, I am glad to have learned cursive writing at school. I can see an improvement in my handwriting already 😀
cursive is my favorite. its fast and looks nice and been writing in cursive since grade 4 and im about to graduate from uni now
I like printstyle most for taking all sorts of notes! I used to take all notes with cursive as it is much faster to write with, but over time I found out that printstyle is more efficient due to being more legible, so now I try to actively improve the speed of my printstyle
Serif is something I try to get a hand on nowadays. I like to play with it a bit when I'm relaxing around or when I make headers in my notes, I find it very soothing and I think it works fantastically with pens I have (very rigid lines, in general, that is).
Cursive is best suited for regular writing. My preferred style is using a 1.2mm cursive italic nib and cursive writing. Looks beautiful.
Thanks for another set of great tips, Tom. I always print ... EXCEPT when I have a fountain pen in hand, then I always write long hand. Don't really understand why, but it's automatic. Of course, I'm an old fogy that remembers fountain pens and cursive from the old days. My penmanship does NOT automatically improve with a fountain pen though. Like you said, it requires practice. My biggest failure is slowing down when I do practice. Gotta practice patience too.
Best wishes to all who enter. That Sailor Pen will be wonderful for whomever wins it!
Cursive with block accents. Thanks for all you do!
Cursive of course! For years I had forgotten how to even write in cursive, quick note taking on cheap paper with ballpoint pens had gotten me into the printing habit - poorly at that. I did have some nice Cross or Waterman ballpoints but once I discovered fountain pens, it actually forced me to write in cursive - what the nuns back in grammar school 50 years ago called writing in script!:-) Over the past 3 years since my fountain pen journey began, I have once again re-learned script/cursive and I do see improvement over that time
Of all the styles demonstrated, cursive is my favourite style. I write with a fountain pen everyday. It is by far the best type of pen to improve handwriting. Thank you for all your informative videos.
My favorite type is cursive but right now I am trying to be more good at it. My hand-writing is so complex as my friends sad to me. As you said, its not easy to write perfectly in one day and I want to be good at cursive writing. I have three pens one Lamy, one Scrickss and one Parker. Thanks for your videos Goldspot pens.
Print style its my favorite. Its the style i use all the time. For journaling, shop drawings and specifications....
I like using my own mix of cursive and print. I wish I knew how to make beautiful florished letters but for now I prefer to practice making my writting more consistant. The Sailor 1911 4am pen is beautiful!
I used to have nice cursive. Many years ago I had changed to printing in all caps, but using different size of letters. Since getting into fountain pens I have starting practicing and writing in cursive again.
I've always been attracted to cursive styles of writing. Something about how smoothly everything just flows together. I'm actually working on making my cursive more legible, while being able to write things down in a timely manner. I really wish I would have paid more attention in elementary when we were just learning how to write in cursive!
I like shaded/faux calligraphy because it adds extra bit of fun to everything I write. The letters look less messy so I like the look of it. Although I don't use it with my daily notes since it would take so much time, I like to decorate the letters for my planner and designing posters for special events at school :D
My favorite is cursive writing style as it helps me to write faster and makes the writing experience itself more enjoyable :)
I like doing a mix of cursive and print. It's a nice balance between speed and readability.
My Favourite style is 'Cursive" because it has a flow and can write fast enough as you think along.
I’m practicing my cursive, but right now I do a combo between cursive and print. I learned cursive when I was younger and print when I was older so now it’s a combo.
Hi Tom and Friends. Cursive is my cup of tea. It just feels like the most befitting trait for this amazing human feat... note-taking, journaling, listing, communicating, marking... putting down thoughts, elaborating them... working or just having fun... regardless... at these amazing times of tech, well... more than ever, we have to keep the flame alive... it’s compelling, yes? Cheers! George from Hellas.
Old school in the house baby. I've been writing in cursive since third grade. My father had beautiful handwriting and I wanted to make him proud so I learned cursive and perfer cursive writing.
Cursive is my favorite. I've been practicing everyday and have noticed my handwriting getting better and more consistent.
My favorite handwriting style is cursive with a 1.1mm stub nib - smooth as can be - with shimmer ink gliding across a thin, strong, sleek paper.
Just bought my first fountain pen, but I would have to say cursive is my favorite. I'm sad they don't teach it in school anymore but going to get more pens to teach my kids.
My favourite handwriting style is definitely cursive with a fine nib so that there's no need to write too large.
But perhaps writing in print for class notes or anything that needs to be fast and clear. :)
Thanks for the video!
I always default back to print, as I was told in grade school that my cursive was too atrocious to continue. However, lately I've been trying to get back to using cursive. The 3 Ps really do help!
My go-to handwriting style is a modified version of New American cursive, practical enough for me to keep up during fast paced lectures in college.
My favorite is Cursive. I love the looping I can do on letters and numbers.
Cursive writing will always be my favorite style. It's a shame it's not being taught in American grade schools anymore.
Cursive is by far my favorite. It's the easiest for me to write and my most legible writing style.
Cursive and basic print is my favorite. Still leaning to improve my cursive writing.
I write more print these days because of my current work environment. I found many people in the energy field (at least in Texas) don't write as often, and the cursive taught in schools is vastly different than taught in England and The Netherlands (which is where most of the employees travel to and from). Print makes thinks easy for everyone to read.
Calligraphy is my fave. I haven't bought a fountain pen yet. I have only recently started watching videos about fountain pens.
I am a big fan of Cursive and have been practicing my handwriting lately to get better.
I have gotten in the habit of printing because my cursive writing looked like scribble to me. I do not write a lot but have a few inexpensive fountain pens and some great inks and i use them every day. Cursive is my favorite and I am going to start practicing every day!!
Print is my main handwriting style. It varies from formal block lettering, a hold over from mechanical drafting...to a faux chicken scratch that I use for daily note taking.
Being a lefty, I have a love / hate relationship with cursive. Getting into fountain pens several years ago has renewed my interest. So far, cursive may be faster in theory...but for now it requires just enough attention to detail to slow me down. It’s good for writing, but bad for note taking in real time.
Cursive hand writing is the way to go! I use it for journaling.
My favourite writing style is cursive, even though I'm not very good at it, but I'm trying to improve by journaling everyday. My parker 45 (M) has never seen so much use in years!
I learned to write at school using the Marion Richardson - Writing & Writing Patterns, my everyday handwriting is still based on this style but I used a narrow (elongated) form of Architectural Lettering for making notes for work and journaling.
For me, fountain pens have been in my life for as far back as I can remember. In elementary school, our desks were outfitted with ink wells on the top-right side, and every day we practiced the loop, slant, and spacing of the Palmer Method. Over the last two years, I've practice adding flourishes to my cursive, mostly for envelope addresses.
I practice cursive (my favorite) everyday and am in the market for a stub nib to spice things up a bit! Great video!
My favorite writing style is cursive, especially with a soft or flex nib. Thanks for the video.
Hmmm...didn't check the date before I 'entered'. ;)
My favorite style is cursive, with a medium tip. Thank you 🙏
If I had to choose a favorite, I would go with Spencerian cursive. The line variation is not overdone and the letterforms have a certain angularity to them that looks elegant to me.
My favorite is the typewriter font, I haven’t mastered it yet but some day I will! I also like the faux calligraphy, it’s great for making it look nice even when you don’t have a flex nib!
Cursive, but still working on it. Being a lefty side writer does sometimes pose a challenge😍😍😊😊😊😊