Looking For A Hybrid Cursive / Print Script To Practice Flex Writing

[beanbag]

Hello folks,

I want to practice some flex writing with my vintage pen and oblique holder. The font I am looking for is similar to all those writing samples advertising flex pens. So far, I have just been practicing the Palmer-style cursive I learned back in grade school, making the downstrokes wider and controlling the speed and pressure to modulate the ink flow.

 

Anyway, I don't like a lot of the characters in this Palmer (or whatever) font, for example A, S, F, T, I, G, r, s, z, etc, in that they don't much resemble the printed letters. I don't mind having to lift the pen a few times per word, so is there some other script / font that would be more to my liking? Only light or no flourishes preferred. Ideally, you could point me to a web page that just has these characters laid out, and arrows showing strokes if complicated.

 

Thanks

 

[Randal6393]

IAMPETH (www.iampeth.com) has just such tutorials in its Lessons and Rare Books sections.

[nickmazur]

It seems to me that you would like Spencerian lettering. There are a lot of resources on the IAMPETH site. There's a book still in print. You can get it on Amazon, among other places.

[beanbag]

Thanks, but I find the iampeth site a bit of info overload. Is there some other place that simply has pictures of various fonts / scripts that I can browse?

[loopsandtails]

Hi beanbag, you could try this variation of cursive, not to many flourieshes. Easy to follow guides.

The style not for everyone of course but worth looking at.

 

http://www.loopsandtails.com/practice-alphabet/cursive-handwriting-practice/

Edited May 27, 2015 by loopsandtails

[beanbag]

Thanks. I do like the A, G, and z in this alphabet.