suitable for 1st and 2nd grade

[ironymaiden]

as part of my fountain pen hobby and continuing quest to protect my hands, I've decided to work on penmanship. my current handwriting is printed with inconsistent loops on some letters. I'd like to be more fluid, especially with the tools to do so.

I did some research and landed on Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift, the plainer of the two styles taught in Germany. to that end I now have a workbook, complete with little animal illustrations on each page (for some reason the big cats and only the big cats have creepy human eyes) and a house at the beginning of each line. the capital letters go up to the roof, most letters are on the main floor, some go down to the basement.

I've done a few pages and so far I like it. The A, for example, is asymmetrical; the right downstroke is vertical and the cross stroke is designed to connect to the next letter. All the lower-case letters start and end at the mid line.

I have decades of habit to break but it could be pretty great.

Comments

[oracne]

That sounds fun!

[flexagon]

That's super cool! Though in the page you linked, something is happening around the "r s" of the lowercase alphabet that I don't understand (and I'd never, ever be able to get used to a lowercase "p" that doesn't close).

I taught myself italics in my early 20s in a similar quest, partly to make up for not getting to learn it when my friend did and partly so that I'd have a "pretty" handwriting I could switch to when I really wanted to. It was fun but I never succeeded in switching to it as a default.... my default is still all-caps block letters, e.g. engineer script.