![]() ![]() ![]() With my oldest child, I couldn't distinguish o from a in his handwriting, so I have spent a lot of time teaching my child to make his a's go all the way down to the baseline before connecting, and to stay close to the midline after an o. That's not how we teach children to connect these letters in school. The most obvious problem is how that the connections from the letters b/ o/ v/ w have to dip very low, very far towards the baseline. In isolation, the letters look like this: In Monotype's School Script font, all letters begin and end halfway between the baseline and midline.Īnd this is what it looks like if you use the font ‘normally (without artificially separating the letters like I did above): The connections after the letters o and b dip very low in this font. Because all letters begin and end at the same height, they can all connect up. All letters begin and end with a bit of connecting stroke at that height. Meeting halfwayĪ very common approach to dealing with cursive connections is, to decide that all letters have to meet all other letters at the same height: exactly halfway between the baseline and the midline. ![]() How to spot these fonts: check for letter combinations starting with b/ o/ v/ w, and especially combinations where the second letter is a tall letter ( b/ f/ h/ k). For teaching purposes, we can't use such fonts. The simplest solution is to omit some of the connections between letters: The free decorative font Parisienne omits some connections.Īlthough this is perfectly acceptable for a decorative font that is just trying to evoke the feeling of handwritten cursive, it's not something we want students to emulate. In this article I will look at less and more successful solutions that have been invented by font designers to solve the problem of cursive. In my previous article I discussed what makes creating a cursive font hard. ![]()
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