Hi, I started paying more attention to my writing in the last few months. I wanted get everyone opinion, and most of all get pointers for improvement. My first priority is readability; beauty is secondary. Eventually, I'd like to have both.



Thanks!
-Steven

Definately not an expert here, but I just wanted to chime in. I find your handwriting to be easily readable and also attractive. I like to print-cursive hybrid that you have going on.

Sorry I can't give any pointers, I'm too jealous.

I agree. Very nice - stylish and very legible! My handwriting is very clear also and I appreciate this in others' writing too. Makes it easier to share notes from meetings, etc. It's a good skill to have.

clear and legible, me likey

Highly readable!

Two things I noticed in this example are that the b's can be confused for k's and that a couple of my l's are not straight, and could be confused for upper case C's. If you look at the word "limbs" in the second line, it could looks like "Cimks" at first glance.

I also need to work on my n's and m's. I don't know how to explain it, but the down stroke from the last "hump" is concave, and makes the letter look different. In the first line, Brazen can look like "brasev," and "fame" looks like "fawe".

Well, the b and k problem can be solved if you continue your pen into the b as you write it, instead of pulling to the right. Also you can adopt the cursive stroke order.

I think your script is fab

easy to read and nice to look at.........

I think most cursive scripts have the nv mw thing going on...
I would say its only that one b in limbs that has gone astray - your other b's are easily destinguishable as such.

Good luck with the work though - unless your ken (caliken) there is always more to be done (even if you do put me to shame already )

I think it is very legible and clearly written. Sometimes make my b's the way you do. Sometimes they look like k's.

Steven,

I agree with the others - your writing is perfectly legible, and is already attractive, flowing easily and evenly across the page.

This is not a criticism, just an observation - I think that you may be writing with too thick a nib for the size of your lettering. Your counters (the inner spacing of letters) are tending to close up. This is particularly noticeable with the letter "e". I would suggest either increasing the size of your lettering until the counters open up, or (preferably) writing with a finer nib. Your writing IMO is already very good, and this would just sharpen it up a little - the icing on the cake, as it were!

Thanks for the kind words. Regarding nib size, my workhorse pen is a Lamy Safari with the EF nib. The medium is fine if I'm using good paper, but the sample I wrote was on (very) cheap copy paper.

When I have some time, I'll post a sample with my "normal" combination.

-Steven

Great job- readable with a nice flow