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I know for a fact that, over time, people develop unusual touches or 'modifications' that distinguish their handwriting from another's. For example, you write in full-fledged cursive, but banish the upper loop of the letter 'p'. So, I would like to know that people who like fountain pens, and by extension, writing in general, have developed their own touches and if so, what are they?

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I rarely dot my "i's."

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I tend to write in full cursive. My capital "I" looks like a formal "1" - kind of like this typeface: a slight hook at the top and no bottom bar.

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I've been using fountain pens for about six years now, but my handwriting developed some quirks before then, most of which I've retained. My capital V comes to a sharp point, where most cursive styles will show it curving at the bottom. I was taught to make a lower case c with a small vertical line at the open end at the top (not closing the letter). Curiously, although I've stopped doing this almost entirely, I retain it where a lower case c occurs in my signature. Not a deliberate decision. In a word with more than one lower case t, I sometimes use a single line to cross them all if there aren't any other tall letters between them, but I don't do it consistently.

 

And other things, none of them deliberate. I don't have any Xaviers or Xanthias to write letters to, so my capital X, used very rarely indeed, seems to switch unconsciously between two cursive styles; I have no idea which I was taught. For a while I was printing my capital Qs and Zs, then returned to the cursive forms. I suspect, though, that as with most people, the main change is from the neat, rounded, hand of a child copying the style book (I actually got good grades in handwriting in elementary school) to the more slanted, narrower writing of a man. Again as with most people, I think it's the overall style that makes it mine (for better or worse) not the oddities of individual letters.

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Backwards ascenders, print capitals, an odd little serif on a capital "H", big loops on my descenders: a totally pretentious style.

 

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Oops! I should think up a few more to use up this double post.

 

Does brown ink count?

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I've always intensely disliked the capital, American cursive letter A.

I use the italic cursive form that looks like an upside down capital V with a slash.

 

My 1st capital letter in a new paragraph is HUGE

 

There is a tiny unintensional loop on the top of my lower case r that I think is cool so I haven't done anything about it.

 

Everything else is pretty standard.

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I tend to not do loops on ascenders and descenders, so it's not a "true" cursive. I also tend to swap capital "I"s back and forth between cursive ones and print ones, and even with the print ones I don't always use the top and bottom cross lines. I suspect it's all because I spent too many years printing (probably even back, to some extent, to middle school and high school).

At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.... :rolleyes:

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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