Small Handwriting

[Aquaria]

Maybe because I learned cursive writing back in the 60s/70s, I don't have a problem adapting my hand to whatever the paper or occasion requires. Give me a blank page, and my writing will tend to stay very close to a wide rule line, because that's the paper I spent most of my formative writing years using to perfect my penmanship--read: when it was actually graded. We were't even allowed to use college-ruled lines until either junior high or high school in the school systems I attended for that reason. Our penmanship was expected to be large and flowing, so those of us who worked at it to get good grades made our writing conform to that. It's now habit for me.

 

 

Now with that said, you might try Clairefontaine French-ruled paper to increase the size of your writing. It's laid out in a way that you can use the lines to act as guides to sizes of letters. I'd start out making lower case letters like a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v and w take two lines, and then expand the letters that extend vertically (f, g, h, etc.) from there. The beauty of the French ruling is that you can then practice making letters ever larger by using more lines, vertically, per letter.

 

 

Some of the workbooks for learning cursive have lines bifurcated with dashed lines to act as guides for how to get the vertical sizes of your letters right. More importantly, that layout forces you to write large. Not many of them are fountain-pen friendly, though. Sometimes eBay has vintage cursive writing tablets that have fountain pen friendly paper, if you can find something from the 40s -early 60s.

Edited December 30, 2017 by Aquaria

[BentNibs]

EMBRACE IT! I actually have smaller handwritting than yours. If i write large its horribly messy. I used to get in trouble in school because i wrote so small. Its not something i do intentionally. It just happens.

 

I would go with it! Who cares what others think of your handwritting right?

[Freddy]

As long as 'tis legible................

 

Fred

 

..Embrace The Suck..

[Mech-for-i]

It looks to me perfectly fine, unless there's a really really legitimate reason you need to write large, why bother .. no one had the right to force other to write whatever style , size or so ... I like to be able to write small, fine and beautiful too ; usually able to do 2 out of 3 .. lol

[escribo]

As well as a larger (#6) nib, maybe try a wider one? A B nib or even a .8mm or larger stub and you may find you automatically write larger just to keep your loops open.