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I use fountain pens exclusively and take pride in my penmanship. I also love my Apple Pencil - it lets me use and practice my skills, and is a very good approximation of several different types of nibs. Even my older Wacom tablets weren’t as good.


Any tips on improving penmanship? Mine has always been absolutely horrible, which stinks as there's lots of things I prefer to write out by hand. Most things, in fact, unless it needs to be electronic.


Learn a different script.

Right now you know one script: whatever scrawl you learned as a youth. Pick up something else, preferably a print hand rather than cursive.

There are a ton of options! Here are some examples: http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/scripts/scrindex.htm

A print hand lets you focus on correctness. Once you have some confidence, if you like, you can tackle another cursive hand, such as Spencer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencerian_script


I'll look into those, thank you!


I started by changing my writing drastically - I wrote in smallcaps for a while, until I “forgot” my handwriting, then started over.




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