Typophile - Does anyone have any tips on how to improve your handwriting? - Comments

Yes do. And a summary of

Eben Sorkin — Wed, 1 Nov 2006 08:47:28 -0800

Yes do. And a summary of what’s there too please.

Let us know how it is!

j_polo9 — Wed, 1 Nov 2006 08:45:35 -0800

Let us know how it is!

I happened to pick up

jselig — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:56:25 -0800

I happened to pick up “Drawing on the Right side of the Brain” off the shelf the other night and noticed that there is a section in the back about improving your handwriting.

I think I might actually read that part of the book. Bought the book years ago as part of a course but never used it.

Since it would be your

dezcom — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:38:22 -0800

Since it would be your handwriting, you could call it “Thumbsucker” :-P

ChrisL

make a typeface out of your

satya — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:59:17 -0800

make a typeface out of your sucking handwritting and name it ’sucker’.;)

OOOH so many replies!

mlvr — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:40:36 -0800

OOOH so many replies! Thanks!

My handwriting is so bad that my dad really believed me when I told him that I just found out, at age 26, that I really am lefthanded.

Thank you Lorenza, sorry I

Alessandro Segalini — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:09:52 -0800

Thank you Lorenza, sorry I had no time to translate, same now :
Il segno Elegante si ha quando la scrittura presenta numerose disugualianze metodiche, ma senza grande varietà di Calibro, procede con spigliatezza. Ne derivano bellezza, proprietà, armonia, ma in modo molto naturale e spontaneo.
Elegante è un segno caratterizzante l’intelletto principalmente, poi la volonta. Comportamento dignitoso e fermezza signorile nel difendere i suoi punti di vista. Il segno indica l’attitudine all’arte di prospettiva; senso estetico naturale, stile, gusto del bello, senso delle proporzioni.

faux type doesn’t look

j_polo9 — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:47:16 -0800

faux type doesn’t look very practical for daily scribble notes though.

Digitize them! They’re all

hrant — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:14:22 -0800

Digitize them! They’re all the rage now.

hhp

I have taken several years

dezcom — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:59:02 -0800

I have taken several years worth of caligraphy courses but that does not change my “real” handwriting. It just gives me some other styles to use on those very rare occasions when my handwriting needs to be read by someone other than me. My handwriting is not for multiperson communication :-)

ChrisL

What Hrant calls “faux type”, we used to call type indication in the years before computers came to design. When you did a layout for a client to approve (before a job was sent out for typesetting), you drew the letters matching the typeface. We got good at it too. Eight hours a day for 20 years will do that! :-)

accurata: accurate fine:

lore — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:58:45 -0800

accurata: accurate
fine: fine, classy, subtle or elegant
levigata: smooth,glossy, faced (as in stone)
sciatta: sloppy
grossolana: coarse, rough
solenne: solemn
spavalda: (i love this word): daredevil, bold
parca:frugal
vezzosa:graceful (also affected)
elegante: elegant (oh really?)

Hope Alessandro agrees with that.

Or Dr. Bartollo starts

dezcom — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:50:39 -0800

Or Dr. Bartollo starts singing, “La Vendetta” to drive Figaro out of town :-)

ChrisL

Alessandro, would you

Eben Sorkin — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:36:45 -0800

Alessandro, would you translate the titles from the link you posted?

lol! I must say there has

lore — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:21:40 -0800

lol! I must say there has been an improvement. It used to be disastrous consequences!

Did anyone else start

timd — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:47:38 -0800

Did anyone else start humming the theme from the “Odd Couple” during the middle of this thread?
Two mis-matched type designers are forced to share an apartment and find their lives disrupted by the arrival of a Brazilian doctor with hilarious consequences:)

Tim

Does anyone have any tips on how to improve your handwriting?

mlvr — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:09:29 -0800

My handwriting sucks. What can I do about it?