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Im changing the way I write, I love the flourishes and fun stuff but sometimes get frustrated by how busy/ messy a page can look. Is there any variations of letters or a certain font you can point me to in which the letters go neither below the line or above the line and into the other line of text? Maybe even something that looks good by going just a tiny bit below. I just hate it when youve got a beautiful y or g and then the line below it is ruined with a t or an l.

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Ascenders and descenders are a fact of life in writing. Solutions might be simpler in printing than in cursive, but it takes planning in either case. And when I’m putting thoughts to paper, I don’t have much time for planning exactly where each letter is going to fall on the line.

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Ascenders and descenders thank you abstract49, Im new to penmanship, as in I learned how to write in elementary school. Ive seen some letters written with horizontal like descenders but, for me, Im just not feeling it. My writing is sharp but also pretty fluid and bubbly like. I cant get away from the descenders. Embrace it I guess. Any tips for preventing intersecting lines? Mindful of sentence wording and spacing being one. Double spacing seems so unnatural and deliberate, I want to avoid that. I WILL be browsing google for ages to pick each letter close to my natural and the way I want or like. Im all ears and eyes :)

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I am not sure I understand your query, but here goes ...

 

This is a picture from internet, from long ago which I have kept in a place where I access frequently.

Its a very beautiful piece of handwriting/calligraphy.

Like casual but in a formal way.

After some practice , I can almost write like that.

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I use to have a friend who writes very much nicer than this(below) ...

(this is my poor attempt .. my alphabets are all haphazard in size , not consistent in formation too ...)

The flourishes dont extend beyond top nor bottom.

The 'g' , the 'f' , the 'y'

This is written with a PLATINUM President <F> with IROSHIZUKU ink.

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I find that a good smooth ballpoint (eek) helps much as you practice to adopt this hand ...

here is another attempt with a PILOT CUSTOM 823 <F> stubbed by Mike-It-Work.

IROSHIZUKU ink as well.

The square grids are small at 5mm only.

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I am guessing your handwriting is nicer, as you say - more 'bubbly' and i take that to mean more rounded? and cheery ...

 

It might be useful for you to post a sample of your handwriting so we can perhaps see how you can change/adapt some letterforms to suit your requirements.

 

I know there is at least one person here on FPN who writes like that and fantastically neatly ... :notworthy1:

 

Hope this helps. :)

 

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How big is your handwriting? I suggest trying a paper with a wider line pitch. It's surprising what a difference even a 1 mm change in line pitch can make. I bottom out at 7 mm. Even quarter-inch (6.5 mm) starts feeling and looking cramped. Clairefontaine is 8 mm I believe. I think Rhodia might come in both 8 and 7 mm pitch depending on product. You can also use 5 mm dot or grid as 10 mm pitch but I've never mastered the art ... I can't help writing to fit 5 mm and end up effectively double spacing which I don't like the looks of.

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I feel super silly I dont know how to post a pic.

 

From your computer, first resize an image to make it smaller, say 8cm wide, then use the Upload button (near the top of your screen) to Upload it. Copy the middle line of text and paste it on your post.

 

Look under Manuals, for more information on how to use the Upload Tab.

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Acenders and decenders are part of cursive life. No getting around them. I my quest to tame and develop a better hand I discovered French seyes notebooks. Clairefontaine makes these notebooks in A4 and A5. You might find that practicing with these helps.

Add lightness and simplicate.

 

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I had an art teacher in high school who wrote in a hand very much like the orange one that TMLee posted. She was a fabulous artist in her own right as well. I tried to incorporate some of her handwriting style into my own. Not sure how successful I was to be quite honest. But I'm sure some of what I do, came from her.

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Print in all caps, start descender letters at the top of the line so their descender stays in the lines, space your lines further apart either by double spacing lined paper, or learning how to write on blank paper and making the line spacing a more natural distance. Just a few suggestions.

 

If you go back and look at how people wrote 100 years ago (or even 50 years ago) they spaced their words and lines further apart than I see most often these days. Those both increase readability.

 

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