From what I have read online, the Spencerian script is quite popular in the US? (please correct me if I am wrong)

Does anyone know whether it is also prevalent in the UK? Or maybe Britons prefer the copperplate script? Or is the script adopted merely a matter of personal taste?

By prevalent I don't mean everyone around you is using it but prevalence in the community of people who still care about penmanship. I've heard someone describing the script as "useless unless someone is interested in reading ancient scripts".

I think that it's not so much a matter of preference, but more a lack of familiarity.

Spencerian script, devised by Platt Rogers Spencer (1800-1864) is greatly admired by the USA penmanship fraternity, but is largely unknown in the UK. In fact, you'll have difficulty finding even a mention of its existence in calligraphic handbooks.

I suppose that it's a bit like baseball - hugely popular in the USA, but a bit of a mystery, elsewhere!

I, personally, like both Spencerian and Copperplate style scripts equally, but they are totally different from each other. In fact, the only common factor is their use of the pointed, flex nib.

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Except Japan Where they, incidentally, have never heard of Spencerian either.