I'm hoping there are some other people out there like me who find it quite interesting, perhaps even fascinating at times to see others' handwriting and how they do certain things with it (surely it's not just me?). I for one am constantly looking to improve and make my handwriting more appealing. I'll find myself going through a few pages of paper just writing out whatever letters I want to change over and over until I find a form I like and adopt that into my scribbling. For instance, during last semester at college, one of my professors wrote lots of notes on the board, I fancied his lower case 'f' and more or less stole it and now it's become my standard one. I recently changed my capital 'G', 'R', and 'Y' (although the last one I'm not quite sure on, it still looks strange, but the G I am quite pleased with). Anyway, I'm just looking to see what people think of my handwriting, I find I get interesting comments at times when people see it. My seventh grade English teacher once left a note on one of my papers that she liked the capital 'W' I used in the title, it was one that turned out as Walt Disney used to sign his name, with a loop in the middle- about half of mine come out like that.

The song lyrics just happened to be the song I was listening to at the time I wrote it, it worked decently well, but there isn't much variety in the words. These were written on run of the mill Staples brand copy paper with a Parker 51 and Quink Ink, my scanner picked it up lighter and more purple than it actually is, I couldn't be bothered to fix that while I was splicing them together in Photoshop.

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I must say I am rather taken by this. Very neat and legible, and there is something very appealing about it too.

Very nice, very legible with a personalized feel.

Great job.

Wow very nice! I don't normally like printed handwriting unless it is italic but that is one of the more legible and appealing hands that I have seen!

Your capitals all seem nice and legible. Your spacing between letters, words and even lines seems quite consistent. My only problem is with the letters m and n, I find them too jagged, maybe make them more rounded?
Your number examples seem nice except the 5 and 6 seem less appealing to me personally. I would also recommend rounding your question mark.

Nice work!

Not my style exactly, but it seems very readable and deft.

You five would cause confusion, I think, because the left vertical comes up and over in a curve. It would be mistaken for an "S" with a line after - particularly in a context where you are mixing letters and numbers.

I like it a lot...well laid-out and spaced, very legible and having a distinctive 'character'...especially that personal 'I'

I agree that the numbers 5 & 6 could be more legible, and what is that symbol between '@' and ampersand ? Is it a hash?
(#)

Nicely done. It does not appear to be any of the major schools, i.e., Palmer Method, Zaner Bloser, etc, but it is legible, personalized, and distinctive, besides being attractive and easy on the eyes.

Donnie

I like it. It's different, but easy to read. I like the flourishes.
I also steal letters from different people (and languages too) and am glad to see I'm not alone.

Hehehe. That was lots of fun to read. Extremely legible & neat

I certainly agree with you all about my 5. It's always been an annoyance to me, I have trouble forming the sharp angles a 5 should have unless I slow way down to write it. Coincidentally, my mother also does her 5's the same way I do, which is probably how I picked it up. The 6 in that spread isn't my best either, usually they do have a much more defined loop and are easy to identify at a 6, the same can be said for the question mark, though that one frequently turns out with less curves as it did here.

And rogerb, yes that's a pound sign, abet a speedily written one.

I see lots of talk around here about schools of handwriting. Seems a strange concept to me. I learned whatever my teachers in elementary school taught, although the last few grades there and into junior high wanted me to write cursive, I never cared for it, I can write as shown above faster than I ever could in cursive, although as you all can plainly tell I have adopted some of the cursive letters.

I do appreciate the kind words about my writing, I suppose it validates my time spent working on it.

Well, I would never have guessed it was a pound sign I assume you mean '£' as in Sterling rather than 'lb' as in weight? Perhaps worth 'clarifying' that one, too?
(I don't have a £ sign on my Spanish keyboard!)

I agree about 'schools'....I am delighted to see such a 'personal style'

Your five and six need work, but otherwise, it looks fine. I must admit, I've *never* seen a pound-sign that looked anything like that! Most unique!!

All of our phones and longbows use that pound symbol, it's generally a US use of it, but it's not incorrect.

Sorry, tried to edit, but double posted!

Hang on, Sport, we Limeys should know a Pound sign, '£' (which is a stylised 'L' ) from some weird Colonial squiggle

Seriously, can you give me any 'authority' for the use of that symbol? I am just interested...I can't find any reference to it on the internet.

And what is a 'longbow' in this context?

To me, your handwriting looks wonderful. It has a very relaxed feel to it, and it looks kind of funky.

In the United States, this symbol: # is referred to as a pound sign, a hash, the number symbol or sign, a crosshatch, and a sharp if used in music notation (there are probably others as well. We aren't in Britain so we don't have pounds for money, hence the difference in names for the thing. Here's some insight to it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign

I think that may be the misunderstanding, lots of people who aren't in the US here.

As far as the longbow goes, I'm referring to a weapon. The weight required to draw the bow is labeled on them as the number followed by #, designating pounds. It's an old use of the symbol I admit, but as I was raised in a hunting family, that's how I'm familiar to it.

To my knowledge, # is used for...

Numbers - #1, #2, etc etc...

Music, as a 'sharp' sign (A#, Bb etc).

Hash-sign on telephones.

Never seen it used as a pound-sign (pound sterling, that is) until today!...learn something new all the time. To me, the pound-sign is always the loopy L thingo with the two horizonal strokes through it.

Very nice writing! and i agree with darrenimo, very "funky"

I know it probably sound far-fetched...but somehow i feel that the writing (and very likely the person who writes it) is very energetic and cheerful.

Personally love the capitals. Flourish executed really nicely without tempering the letters too much...guess it'd be my good "stealing material"...haha....the "6" might bother me a bit if stand-alone though...it looks like my very own "le" combo..but i believe it wont be problematic in your writing (coz your "le" combination looks very different....so i guess that's ok.

Keep up the good work.

Interesting discussion about the "#".

"#" It's been "pronounced" as "pound" in my voice mail recording thingy ("..for more option, please press "pound"...")..I think that's what Shangas referred as "hash".....yah i heard "#" being called "hash".....but never on voice mail/telephone system before..interesting!

I always pound sterling as described by Shangas....there's no other way to write it, except maybe "GBP"?

Where are you all interpreting it as pound sterling? The entire time I was referring to pound weight.

It's just a word confusion between English and American:

In the US, # is pronounced pound and is the symbol used to represent the unit of weight call pound.

In the UK, # is pronounced hash and I don't know what it's used to represent (help, please).

In the UK, pound is unit of currency. In the US, hash is something served with eggs for breakfast (or something we might have come across in in the 1970's).

I think the previous poster read the word pound and though of the monetary unit.

There are any number of funny, confusing word/phrase definitions that crop up when you get Brits and Yanks together. Some of my favorites (from an American Perspective; no offense intended to any Scots, Irish, English, Welsh, Americans, or anyone else for that matter) :

Pants and Suspenders
Fanny Pack
Bum Equipment
Mind the Gap
Sticky Buns
Drug Store

By the way, OP, you have a very nice hand. It's a joy to see what practice and consistency can do for even the most personalized style of writing. Keep up the great work!


Cheers,
Tom

Out of that 6....how come i only laugh at #2,#3,#4 and #5?...God, i dont have anything against body parts!....LOL. (and the "Gap"!....i laughed my gut off on that one.....remind me of the broadcast on metro "please mind the platform Gap"....LOL)

btw, Hash (#) doesn't have any functional representation in the British system, does it? Now we see how multi-cultural it is on here....LOL

Ah, now I understand, it's what I'd call a hash sign, and I've seen it used in this forum to represent 'pounds weight', eg for paper thickness, as opposed to 'Pounds Sterling', the currency

(I just couldn't see any similarity between yours and the '£' currency symbol...all is now clear.....although I did ask whether you meant it to represent weight or currency in an earlier post!)

The confusion stems from my original incorrect assumption which I expressed in one of my early posts....as I was not corrected back then, I started-off down a blind-alley

The # sign is, I believe, and as has been said, most commonly understood on this side of the pond to mean "Number", as in "Go to Platform #1". But it is not in general usage.
It is also used as a fairly standard way of ending a transmission, by cellphone, of a string of digits, say your credit card number, and it is usually described as 'Hash'.

One must also be careful, (I'm advised!) as an English-speaker, about asking an American for the loan of a rubber (an eraser to us, but not to you/them!!)

Incidentally, on my Spanish keyboard, I can only get the '£' sign by holding-down Alt and typing 0163!

Very nice, I like your style very much. (And your 'stang!)

Is that an American tradition? I have not seen that on bows over here in the UK, then again I have not looked that much what it says on other people's bows. I don't have that on my longbow, rather I have LB for pounds.

The longbows we have are all custom and hand made, so it's probably just the style of the individual maker to do it that way. Honestly the last time I shot a store-bought bow was probably when I was 10 or 11.

To me...

# - Hash/Number sign.
$ - Dollar-sign.
lb - (Libre) - Pound (weight) sign.
₤ - Pound sterling sign.