Does Anyone Else Write A Blend Of Print And Cursive?

[Sailor Kenshin]

I've had folks comment on my default handwriting style which is printing with a blend of some cursive. While I am capable of purely printing or writing in real cursive, over the years I've unconsciously developed an efficient blend of both.

 

An S may be print or cursive depending on where it falls within a word. The R in 'heart' will likely be cursive but the R in 'rabbit' will be print. The way I form the "tail" on my lowercase letter G varies depending on whether it falls mid-word or at the end of the word.

 

Does anyone else have a similar writing style? Or is this just one more way in which I'm "special"?

 

Sometimes. It just seems to happen that way.

 

At other times, I'll switch between print and cursive by paragraph or by pen/ink combo that seems to demand, 'No, with this you PRINT.'

[Mr. Pink]

Maybe a better question is: "who doesn't ever mix the two?"

[Dronak]

I used to use print most of the time, now I use cursive most of the time. Sometimes both get used together, but usually it's when I print acronyms while writing notes in cursive. I typically don't mix print and cursive within a single word though.

[AllisonS]

I have to agree with the comments on akustyk's handwriting: it looks great!

Agreed. I would never send an email again if I could write like that!! Every example is gorgeous.

[Mister5]

I write novels longhand. I'll use print to denote character's thoughts while cursive for regular dialogue & narration. I could use color but it would be a pain to switch back & forth between pens.

[tinta]

To distinguish my personal cursive writing style from the standard Ontario school script taught (& expected) in my middle school years, I began to print all my capitals & also modified the formation of a number of small case letters: e, g, j, q, r, s, t, y, z.

(This was partly done to annoy a certain Mother St. Bernard.)

 

Though my handwriting developed to be distinct, it was not exactly distinguished. To ramp things up a bit, I decided to use an edged nib, a Pelican OBB.

The result is a hand that's a hodgepodge of printing & writing styles that I call my own.

Edited February 17, 2016 by tinta

[gryphon1911]

When writing quickly, I tend to print the capital letters and cursive the rest of the word.

 

I then at one point went all print because my cursive was so horrendous. Thanks to this fountain pen thing I am into now, I an back to writing in all cursive for the practice.

[LegalAddict]

I mix cursive and print all the time, if it's something I write often, it will be all cursive, something confusing/unusual/new, will often be print

[Bookman]

When I'm in a hurry (e.g. note-taking from a source over which I have no control) I just get it down the best way I can, which ends up a mix of cursive and print. No matter what, I always write titles in all-caps block printing. There are probably other things that, stylistically, I choose to print. Otherwise, it's all cursive all the time.

[abdcolvinian]

When I write fast for like exams and stuff or use a ball point pen I prefer italic cursive as it is comes to be very natural when you write that fast.

[SmurfK]

Yeap, i do exactly that. I sometimes feel ashamed for it, but it just seems natural now. Funny enough, i always had the impression i'm doing it quite often, but i'm really not. Most of the times, on capital letters, at the start of the phrase, and, in the rest on lowercase letters like b, k, x, v, t, y, d, r. Most of them, like d or v, are not too different anyway, so i'm not really seeing a huge difference. Same as OP with r, for example, sometimes cursive, other times print. And don't get me wrong, writing that way it's actually much better than writing all cursive, for me. I was known for an awful handwriting while i was at school. But as i developed my own handwriting, now it's pretty normal, and people understand what i'm writing without any problems.