Please circulate this to every friend of good handwriting

[KateGladstone]

Please circulate this to all friends of good handwriting

 

 

 

To every expert friend of our handwriting -

 

Among other things, I am a member of a handwriting education research group, which is building a database of all the handwriting curricula/textbook models published anywhere in the world that the Roman alphabet is used.

 

We aim to document (in a searchable internet database) literally every shape and form of handwriting instruction template that is/was posted anywhere in any nation that uses any form of the Roman alphabet, it is easier for the national language(s), or for any other language(s) extensively studied in that country.

 

So please read and respond to the attached image (a letter from the research team leadership), then please forward this same image (with a request worded any way you like) to anyone else who has the information and expertise to respond! Also, feel free to post it on social media, your blog and/or website, and anywhere else you can think of.)

 

With hundreds of countries in the world, and most of them using the Roman alphabet, either for their own language, or for some other language that is very commonly taught there, the only way to collect data on the scale we need is for us to reach out and ask, wherever we can!

 

So please reply — and please forward this it to others, everywhere you see fit  (handwriting publishing companies, teachers, etc.) so that they can also reply!

 

Yes, the purpose of this project is none other than to create a comprehensive worldwide database of all handwriting patterns used/published anywhere in the world of the Roman alphabet. The purposes of this database are for research, education and documentation engine. Become part of this data collection initiative. It's YOUR chance to show the world (for today and tomorrow) what YOU know about handwriting: what is YOUR place and YOUR place/region/company/etc., within the big picture of Roman handwriting models in EVERY corner of the world, no matter how big or small, how well known or how little known.

 

Models from EVERY country, models from EVERY school or region, models from EVERY company, need and deserve a place on the map!

[InesF]

Thank you, @KateGladstone, for this initiative and for forwarding the "call to arms".

 

What exactly is expected? Should it become a collection of handwriting types and variants thaught in school? Or do you simply collect handwritten documents, whatever they are, plus some background about how they had been created?