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Inky TODs are Topics O'Day and are meant to generate conversation about a particular topic. Yesterday, my beloved nib guy (who is also a penpal) sent me the following following:


I was contemplating on some of the things you expressed about your handwriting.

I like to know what your opinions are concerning this matter as we leave our marks behind with the pen we use.

Personally, before I go six feet under, I like to impress my daughter and everyone that is left behind with the knowledge that I have acquired and mastered three handwriting script, of which I deemed most useful: Fraktur for the times when I want to be a little mysterious, Spencerian for all the times I like to show off, and for the everyday hand italics. These three scripts, I am currently nurturing and to perfect. The closer I get to it, the more I like it.


Musing one: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/334972-inky-t-o-d-ink-pen-paper-and-handwriting-musings-1-which-nibs-attract-you-and-why/?do=findComment&comment=4035298


2. What is it about your handwriting that you like or dislike, and what is it about your handwriting that are actually going to change?

Now before Lapis asks why this topic is here (and not in another forum) - the answer is because for me the answer has something to do with ink. If it doesn't for you, that's okay.

For the best handwritten reply (or perhaps more than one great reply), I will send out a gift. (Nothing huge, but you can be surprised.) Enter as many times as you want. Only the handwritten posts will be considered for special gifts, but all posts are appreciated.

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Mine is terrible :o Cross your T's!? Pssht!

 

Pro: it's pretty identifiable as mine!

Con: not even I can read it sometimes...

 

Edit: not going for your competition, but couldn't resist jumping in there for all the scratchers out there :)

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​Here's mine:

 

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It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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Same quote, four different pens and inks. I think it gives a pretty good representation of my handwriting. Especially when I slow down a little.

 

Three of the four are KWZI inks: El Dorado, Pine Green and Brown #4 plus Noodler's Apache Sunset.

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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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Sorry for the extra-wide margins of white space on the pictures. There's probably a way to adjust the scanner for half-sheets of paper, but I don't know it. :unsure:

"To read without also writing is to sleep." - St. Jerome

 

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Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2. What is it about your handwriting that you like or dislike, and what is it about your handwriting that are actually going to change?

Life is too short to drink bad wine (Goethe)

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I like hand writing things because I feel it is more personal. I also think an individual's handwriting says a lot about them. I have 3 styles I write in. An italic nib stylized script,which I feel is the most me, a pointed pen cursive, and an Old English style for frou frou things. (Not counting my quick chicken scratch)

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I don't particularly like my handwriting, but at least it's a bit legible; at school I had spectacular but illegible handwriting, and I held pens in such a way it was painful, so I had to start anew. Fountain pens have helped with greater girth and no dragging across the page, and to think clearly as I write, at a slower pace than I think, which used to drive me mad as a kid. Sometimes I have problems with specific letters, like r, but at least my u, v and x now look distinct!

 

I might try to improve my capital letters, the E looks iffy. Being mesmerized by Tsuyu Kusa, Verdigris and finally Kon Peki also helps :rolleyes: .

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I like hand writing things because I feel it is more personal. I also think an individual's handwriting says a lot about them. I have 3 styles I write in. An italic nib stylized script,which I feel is the most me, a pointed pen cursive, and an Old English style for frou frou things. (Not counting my quick chicken scratch)

 

OMG, I love that quote, where did you find it?

 

I hate the new trend of marketers to use handwritten fonts. When I used Calligraphr, it would allow me to use up to 8 different variants of the same letter.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I forgot I scanned my reply to this thread.

It's very interesting to read how everybody adapts their handwriting to fit the occasion. Amber's replies are so colorful, and knarflj's handwriting is so neat.

Also Aysun, your script is top notch, I tip my metaphorical hat to that.

Though I don't agree with Stoker's words. If a person shows a variety of handwriting styles, I think it's good to welcome them. They're like different facets of the same personality. Sometimes we're coherent, sometimes we're contradictory, it's the wonder of the human mind.

Being always uniform and same to yesterday's self implies an inability to adapt and change, which can be beneficial to our lives.

 

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In response to RBN's post about childish and forgeable penmanship.

 

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http://www.sheismylawyer.com/2018-Ink/2018-04/slides/2018-04-15_Ink_2.jpg

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BTW, sorry that the LCR on TR paper with this huge wet nib didn't dry after 45 minutes.

 

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http://www.sheismylawyer.com/2018-Ink/2018-04/slides/2018-04-15_Ink_4.jpg

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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