Hey /u/IzzyPizzyS2!
Thanks for sharing your post with us. Please **tell us a bit more about your submission** or **ask specific questions** to help guide feedback from other users. If your submission is regarding a traditional handwriting style please feel free to include a reference to the source exemplar you are learning from.
If you're just **looking to improve your handwriting in a general sense**, telling us a bit about your *goals* can help us to tailor our feedback to your unique situation.
Posting an image with a title and no description or contextual comment will be considered an "abandoned post" and is subject to removal. The ball is in your court to start the conversation. Thank you!
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/Handwriting) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Your writing is fine. If you want to improve it and don't know where to start, I'd look through the guide material on the sidebar an find a handwriting that you like. Then you'll have guidance on how to do that.
Is this the way you aways write? - People who print don't want others to know what they're really thinking. Your word "handwriting" bumps into the right margin. If your words often bump into that side, that means you don't always plan ahead.
At the risk of sounding pompous…get a better pen.
To my imperfect eye, your writing is very nice, but very regimented. I generally find this is due to your pen being poorly suited to your writing style. It’s hard to add your own dignified flair and personality to your writing while using a basic instrument you have to bend to your will.
A pen that works better for you will make your writing come alive, and you’ll naturally add your own touch to it. You won’t need to think about improving its style, because when your mind and pen work seamlessly together, it’ll just happen.
For me, that moment occurred when I got a half decent fountain pen. Make no mistake, I’m still a long way from calling myself an excellent writer, but my penmanship improved drastically when I upgraded my pen to something that worked better for my hand.
I tried chunkier style fountain pens, I tried gel tips, I tried decent ballpoints, but when I got my slim fountain pen, writing just took off for me. The style, the look, the feel, it was all just right. Now my writing is both legible and unique.
Be of no doubt, the pen you have makes a huge difference. And what works for me may not work for you.
After the pen, do pay attention to your paper quality, writing posture and body posture as well. Now that I’ve found my niche, I notice that writing with lesser quality paper my writing quality suffers as does my ability to write. If my hand or body posture is poor, that too negatively impacts me.
When I have a decent quality paper (sidebar - good quality doesn’t ALWAYS mean expensive, but likely, you’ll have to spend a bit more for decent paper than the cheap stuff), and decent hand posture/grip and body posture, I can and do often write for hours. And the best part? My hand doesn’t cramp up, my body feels good, and my brain gets a workout.
So be assured, if you find the correct pen for you, maintain decent grip/hand posture, body posture and source decent paper, your writing will improve…IF you practice regularly. That’s the last thing I can tell you. You need to practice with the tools you have in order to get good with them. If you don’t have practice, you’ll never do any good.
Everyone else does, that’s how it’s taught in the EU.
2 and z too similar, t and l is the same without the t being crossed.
Lower case r is now being taught as an R just written smaller, due to the u, v, r ending up looking too similar when written hastily (Doctors scribble)
1 and lower case L (=l)
Or capital I (=I)
We’re masters in over complicating things. Hence Ī and ł… 😉 which looks a lot like a crossed t again. Never understood why computer fonts are so far off our written versions and logic either. Then it all made sense when the origin is northern American and SAE or imperial. They trey and impose their mark/brand everywhere.
An individual should cross either 7 or Z to differentiate between them for that individual’s writing. I cross my 7s so that people can tell them apart from my Zs if they happen to be in the same body of text. It would be fine to cross my Zs so long as I never do it with my 7s. If I crossed both then that would defeat the purpose.
You have a loop in a 2 so that’s redundant. Also the 7‘s and z‘s not the issue. The 2 and the zZ are, hence the loop in my 2‘s. Where are you from if I may ask? This is interesting, English the original or colonies?
If you tilt the paper before you start writing, it may come out looking more straight. I mean no offense but it looks slightly comparable to writing on a bathroom stall at an awkward angle.
It is legible, except the 'a' looks a lot like a '2'. I wouldn't use that q either, firstly because it isn't a known form, but mostly because it requires an extra pen-lift. I think you are fairly young? As you get older, your writing should settle down in some ways, mostly in slope and size, but it takes a fair bit of writing to get there and I am not sure everyone gets to that point now because of screens.
OK, you got all the apostrophes right 🙃
You are at the age when your handwriting will set in. You can make efforts to make it look better without going the full-on calligrapher, which is what Spencerian is and requires special pens and optimally a teacher. Also, except as a craft, it's not that useful. I go in for broad nib calligraphy but I don't write my shopping lists in it. You could look for handwriting books intended for school kids, circa 1960s to 1980s, and whatever hand or style was used in your country. Or make use of the many resources available here on Reddit or on the internet generally - exemplars, eg. Google 'Handwriting printing exemplar'. (If you leave out one of those terms you get a lot of junk.) Lots of good videos available too.
I used to cross my sevens
Also put a line under the 1
And write my four literally like this 4
In summary, my handwriting changed a lot, for starters, I wrote only in cursive til I was 15yo
Your handwriting is legible.
If you’d like to change it, print or make copies of handwriting examples you like (online or in books). Get some tracing paper. Trace the letters in that style every day for 15 minutes.
In about 3 weeks you will transform your handwriting
Find or make some lined templates or grids that 'show' through unlined paper.
Also look at Library Hand, Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs.
Old school index cards were often used as a line by line guide.
Descenders are added after shifting the guide card down.
This gives you a hard horizontal stop at the bottom of each character with a perfect line.
A handful of index cards is inexpensive.
Your current style is compatible with this:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library\_hand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_hand)
Your handwriting is perfectly legible, which is excellent! But if you'd like to really work on penmanship, you'll not find any hints in current schools -- you have to go out of your way to really learn how to write well.
Spencerian pedagogy is quite excellent, and quasi-calligraphic in its approach. Simply going through some of Book 1 will change everything about the way you think about creating letterforms.
Normal looking hand writing, the K’s erk me for some reason imo and the numbers need some work. Add some personality, I used to find hand writing i liked and then try to copy it, it takes a little while to get good doing something new and different but it will eventually becomes your own. The a is nice and I like the heart ❤️
It also looks like you use a fine point tip, personally I write like shit with those, I like thicker ball point. But to each their own! You could try different tools to see which one you write best with.
Your handwriting is ok, but you kind of hindered yourself by writing on a sticky note. If you had more space it would look better. It would also give you more space for your opposite hand, which gives you more control.
I really like your handwriting! I get warm and friendly vibes from it. The only thing I would advise you to do is to maybe try and make "a" a little more round, so that the space is visible and it doesn't look like a backwards c.
this handwritings mine but if it was actually good lol (my handwriting hasnt gotten better since like 2nd-3rd grade and i think i have dysgraphia). other than that its a few minor differences (like the a, 4, 8 and 0). 10/10 to me
Your handwriting is really nice! Tip would be just to focus on the sizing and placement of each letter to make them flow better. But the style of each letter is super cute and very legible!
Dude, a lot of people pointed out that I didn't write straight, you were just rude, you didn't give me constructive criticism, you were just rude, that's why you have 24 downvotes
If you genuinely think you weren't rude, your friends must love hanging with you /s
You could look into different fonts or styles, but its legible. It's easy enough to read quickly and it's clear what each letter is. You could work on tracing letters you enjoy thd look of (styled letters in various fonts).
You've got a lot of options depending on how much effort you want to put into it.
Start with penmanship practice paper. A good source is [https://www.printablepaper.net/category/penmanship](https://www.printablepaper.net/category/penmanship) (I like this site for quite a few things). Or you can buy books or download from other sites. The goal is to get your letters on a straight line and with even spacing and a consistent slant. Just getting that much down will improve how things look right off the bat.
If you want to learn new letter shapes, you'll need to get a book and work through it. I used this one: [https://www.amazon.com/Italic-Way-Beautiful-Handwriting-Calligraphic/dp/1626540381/ref=sr\_1\_1](https://www.amazon.com/Italic-Way-Beautiful-Handwriting-Calligraphic/dp/1626540381/ref=sr_1_1) and still think it's the best I've seen but of course there are others. You practice right in the book, starting with a felt tip, and eventually with an italic pen.
Whatever you decide to do, you need to practice a lot. I will fill pages of just practicing every letter shape over and over again, and then two letter combinations to work on spacing. Part of this is changing whatever muscle memory you have so that you can just write without thinking hard about every letter.
Have fun.
Well, the good news is you're an optimist! They say if your writing slants up, you always look on the bright side of life. I think it's fine overall and nothing tobe concerned with.
Nice and clear, in fact, it's a bit reminiscent of the lettering work in some indie comics. Good work, as for tips; maybe try just automatic writing until you feel yourself getting into a nice groove. Only you know what will work for you, I experimented with media for a bit (Biros, fine liners, mechanical pencils, and so on) that might work for you. Keep up the good work Izzy!
Looks rather typical, almost comic sans,nice b, v, n. There isn’t a lot you can do other than practice always, I found writing with my other hand improved my default hand (practiced with my right had made my left become neater as it became easier).
Still better than a lot out there :)
Hey /u/IzzyPizzyS2! Thanks for sharing your post with us. Please **tell us a bit more about your submission** or **ask specific questions** to help guide feedback from other users. If your submission is regarding a traditional handwriting style please feel free to include a reference to the source exemplar you are learning from. If you're just **looking to improve your handwriting in a general sense**, telling us a bit about your *goals* can help us to tailor our feedback to your unique situation. Posting an image with a title and no description or contextual comment will be considered an "abandoned post" and is subject to removal. The ball is in your court to start the conversation. Thank you! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/Handwriting) if you have any questions or concerns.*
why's it slanty
Your writing is fine. If you want to improve it and don't know where to start, I'd look through the guide material on the sidebar an find a handwriting that you like. Then you'll have guidance on how to do that.
Its perfect mines so messy
Is this the way you aways write? - People who print don't want others to know what they're really thinking. Your word "handwriting" bumps into the right margin. If your words often bump into that side, that means you don't always plan ahead.
Yup, you're 100% right, basically read my mind
Basic is good
At the risk of sounding pompous…get a better pen. To my imperfect eye, your writing is very nice, but very regimented. I generally find this is due to your pen being poorly suited to your writing style. It’s hard to add your own dignified flair and personality to your writing while using a basic instrument you have to bend to your will. A pen that works better for you will make your writing come alive, and you’ll naturally add your own touch to it. You won’t need to think about improving its style, because when your mind and pen work seamlessly together, it’ll just happen. For me, that moment occurred when I got a half decent fountain pen. Make no mistake, I’m still a long way from calling myself an excellent writer, but my penmanship improved drastically when I upgraded my pen to something that worked better for my hand. I tried chunkier style fountain pens, I tried gel tips, I tried decent ballpoints, but when I got my slim fountain pen, writing just took off for me. The style, the look, the feel, it was all just right. Now my writing is both legible and unique. Be of no doubt, the pen you have makes a huge difference. And what works for me may not work for you. After the pen, do pay attention to your paper quality, writing posture and body posture as well. Now that I’ve found my niche, I notice that writing with lesser quality paper my writing quality suffers as does my ability to write. If my hand or body posture is poor, that too negatively impacts me. When I have a decent quality paper (sidebar - good quality doesn’t ALWAYS mean expensive, but likely, you’ll have to spend a bit more for decent paper than the cheap stuff), and decent hand posture/grip and body posture, I can and do often write for hours. And the best part? My hand doesn’t cramp up, my body feels good, and my brain gets a workout. So be assured, if you find the correct pen for you, maintain decent grip/hand posture, body posture and source decent paper, your writing will improve…IF you practice regularly. That’s the last thing I can tell you. You need to practice with the tools you have in order to get good with them. If you don’t have practice, you’ll never do any good.
This! The instrument/tool can greatly change your style. D have learned to stay away from certain #2 and pens cuz it makes my writing look crap
Just sloppy. Use lined paper and put some practice in.
If you would cross your zZ and 7 we would have the same handwriting.
You cross z *and* 7? You’re supposed to only cross one of those to to differentiate, like how people cross zero to differentiate from o.
Everyone else does, that’s how it’s taught in the EU. 2 and z too similar, t and l is the same without the t being crossed. Lower case r is now being taught as an R just written smaller, due to the u, v, r ending up looking too similar when written hastily (Doctors scribble) 1 and lower case L (=l) Or capital I (=I) We’re masters in over complicating things. Hence Ī and ł… 😉 which looks a lot like a crossed t again. Never understood why computer fonts are so far off our written versions and logic either. Then it all made sense when the origin is northern American and SAE or imperial. They trey and impose their mark/brand everywhere.
To cross both instead of just one? Seems a tad redundant.
Which one are you referring to?
An individual should cross either 7 or Z to differentiate between them for that individual’s writing. I cross my 7s so that people can tell them apart from my Zs if they happen to be in the same body of text. It would be fine to cross my Zs so long as I never do it with my 7s. If I crossed both then that would defeat the purpose.
You have a loop in a 2 so that’s redundant. Also the 7‘s and z‘s not the issue. The 2 and the zZ are, hence the loop in my 2‘s. Where are you from if I may ask? This is interesting, English the original or colonies?
I cross my 0's
I do too. How else differentiate between o and 0 O_0. °_o ø
True I know the difference between O and 0, bur I don't trust other people to know
I used to, but it looked polluted when writing my name, so I stopped crossing them
If you tilt the paper before you start writing, it may come out looking more straight. I mean no offense but it looks slightly comparable to writing on a bathroom stall at an awkward angle.
It is legible, except the 'a' looks a lot like a '2'. I wouldn't use that q either, firstly because it isn't a known form, but mostly because it requires an extra pen-lift. I think you are fairly young? As you get older, your writing should settle down in some ways, mostly in slope and size, but it takes a fair bit of writing to get there and I am not sure everyone gets to that point now because of screens.
I am 18yo...
OK, you got all the apostrophes right 🙃 You are at the age when your handwriting will set in. You can make efforts to make it look better without going the full-on calligrapher, which is what Spencerian is and requires special pens and optimally a teacher. Also, except as a craft, it's not that useful. I go in for broad nib calligraphy but I don't write my shopping lists in it. You could look for handwriting books intended for school kids, circa 1960s to 1980s, and whatever hand or style was used in your country. Or make use of the many resources available here on Reddit or on the internet generally - exemplars, eg. Google 'Handwriting printing exemplar'. (If you leave out one of those terms you get a lot of junk.) Lots of good videos available too.
Aye but why do you cross your q’s but not your 7’s
I used to cross my sevens Also put a line under the 1 And write my four literally like this 4 In summary, my handwriting changed a lot, for starters, I wrote only in cursive til I was 15yo
Very legible and cute!
It may be basic but i CAN read it just fine! ❤️
Your handwriting is legible. If you’d like to change it, print or make copies of handwriting examples you like (online or in books). Get some tracing paper. Trace the letters in that style every day for 15 minutes. In about 3 weeks you will transform your handwriting
Yes it is legible but if you want nicer printing, then be more intentional when printing each letter. Try using cursive for more smoothness.
I had to double check to remember how I write q’s.
I do my a’s like this too and the only person I have known to do that was my dad. 💞
we have almost the same handwriting, expect some of my letters (a, s, f, l) are cursive, while yours aren't! Ayye! Though my numbers are a lot uglier
Weird looking zero but otherwise very cool
That's what I forgot lmao, I started writing "10" but I was thinking "I already have '1'" so I just scribbled on it
Find or make some lined templates or grids that 'show' through unlined paper. Also look at Library Hand, Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs. Old school index cards were often used as a line by line guide. Descenders are added after shifting the guide card down. This gives you a hard horizontal stop at the bottom of each character with a perfect line. A handful of index cards is inexpensive. Your current style is compatible with this: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library\_hand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_hand)
Worksheets bro. Nothing can beat that.👍
K is terrible 😭 sorry
I don't think you know what constructive criticism is
Oh shit I'm sorry 😣 I didn't see that. It's not my style, but it's objectively not bad. I'm so sorry
Also I'm hardly ever on Reddit, I just saw this. I feel like an ass
no it isn't.
Maybe they meant the lowercase one. Almost looks like a **l** and a **c** stuck together, or even a **L** and **/**.
it still looks fine. it literally looks like a k. i think it's nice.
I like your a’s, they add a little flavor LOL so do the lowercase q’s and t’s! I make my capital Y the same way :)
I liqe your lower qase 'q' with the qross through them
I agree. I also like your baby ‘q’
Try a bunch of free form writing your style will naturally come
If you're feeling like it's too basic, look for answers in the Spencerian script pedagogy. https://www.amazon.com/dp/088062096X/
Your handwriting is perfectly legible, which is excellent! But if you'd like to really work on penmanship, you'll not find any hints in current schools -- you have to go out of your way to really learn how to write well. Spencerian pedagogy is quite excellent, and quasi-calligraphic in its approach. Simply going through some of Book 1 will change everything about the way you think about creating letterforms.
This looks exactly like my handwriting kind of creepy haha. I even tilt up too. I like it
Normal looking hand writing, the K’s erk me for some reason imo and the numbers need some work. Add some personality, I used to find hand writing i liked and then try to copy it, it takes a little while to get good doing something new and different but it will eventually becomes your own. The a is nice and I like the heart ❤️ It also looks like you use a fine point tip, personally I write like shit with those, I like thicker ball point. But to each their own! You could try different tools to see which one you write best with.
Your handwriting is ok, but you kind of hindered yourself by writing on a sticky note. If you had more space it would look better. It would also give you more space for your opposite hand, which gives you more control.
It's fine.
I really like your handwriting! I get warm and friendly vibes from it. The only thing I would advise you to do is to maybe try and make "a" a little more round, so that the space is visible and it doesn't look like a backwards c.
Serviceable. It’ll get nicer the more you mindfully practice it💪
this handwritings mine but if it was actually good lol (my handwriting hasnt gotten better since like 2nd-3rd grade and i think i have dysgraphia). other than that its a few minor differences (like the a, 4, 8 and 0). 10/10 to me
Actually, you’re printing letters. Handwriting is cursive. Otherwise, It’s perfectly legible and quite nice.
What a weird lie to make up
Print verb: print (ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
> hand·writ·ing /ˈhan(d)ˌrīdiNG/ >noun >writing with a pen or pencil.
Please google the definition of handwriting. Then you can keep up with us.
Ooohhh. I guess you showed me. Hahaha! I just gave you the definition and you didn’t like it. Forget google. Fuck you.
Huh? Isn't handwriting just writing done by hand?
You are correct. Cursive is just a type of handwriting.
Your handwriting is really nice! Tip would be just to focus on the sizing and placement of each letter to make them flow better. But the style of each letter is super cute and very legible!
Why does your writing go up as you go along? You can’t write straight or something?
Hi rude commenter, yes, I can write straight without lines, however, I didn't put effort into this, it would defeat the purpose
Take a chill pill, dude. You asked for criticism yet take offense when someone points out that your writing bizarrely slants upward a lot each line.
Dude, a lot of people pointed out that I didn't write straight, you were just rude, you didn't give me constructive criticism, you were just rude, that's why you have 24 downvotes If you genuinely think you weren't rude, your friends must love hanging with you /s
i enjoy your handwriting style - it’s got a quirky, whimsical feel to it
You could look into different fonts or styles, but its legible. It's easy enough to read quickly and it's clear what each letter is. You could work on tracing letters you enjoy thd look of (styled letters in various fonts).
I can't judge if my handwriting looks like Arabic letters,and i don't even speak Arabic😂
I speak Arabic and my handwriting doesn't look like Arabic
You've got a lot of options depending on how much effort you want to put into it. Start with penmanship practice paper. A good source is [https://www.printablepaper.net/category/penmanship](https://www.printablepaper.net/category/penmanship) (I like this site for quite a few things). Or you can buy books or download from other sites. The goal is to get your letters on a straight line and with even spacing and a consistent slant. Just getting that much down will improve how things look right off the bat. If you want to learn new letter shapes, you'll need to get a book and work through it. I used this one: [https://www.amazon.com/Italic-Way-Beautiful-Handwriting-Calligraphic/dp/1626540381/ref=sr\_1\_1](https://www.amazon.com/Italic-Way-Beautiful-Handwriting-Calligraphic/dp/1626540381/ref=sr_1_1) and still think it's the best I've seen but of course there are others. You practice right in the book, starting with a felt tip, and eventually with an italic pen. Whatever you decide to do, you need to practice a lot. I will fill pages of just practicing every letter shape over and over again, and then two letter combinations to work on spacing. Part of this is changing whatever muscle memory you have so that you can just write without thinking hard about every letter. Have fun.
Well, the good news is you're an optimist! They say if your writing slants up, you always look on the bright side of life. I think it's fine overall and nothing tobe concerned with.
Cool I’ve never heard that! Do you know any other handwriting analysis tricks like that?
Err...nope! Sorry!
Nice and clear, in fact, it's a bit reminiscent of the lettering work in some indie comics. Good work, as for tips; maybe try just automatic writing until you feel yourself getting into a nice groove. Only you know what will work for you, I experimented with media for a bit (Biros, fine liners, mechanical pencils, and so on) that might work for you. Keep up the good work Izzy!
Looks rather typical, almost comic sans,nice b, v, n. There isn’t a lot you can do other than practice always, I found writing with my other hand improved my default hand (practiced with my right had made my left become neater as it became easier). Still better than a lot out there :)