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Re:Is Handwriting History? by LyndsySimon on Sunday August 06, 2017 @04:47PM (#14943425)
Historically, block letters were taught to young children first because they were seen as less difficult to form, and therefore writing by someone with little fine motor control would be somewhat legible. Cursive was how adults wrote. In that sense, she was correct.

That said, "the writing of the business world" today is Times New Roman (or maybe Helvetica Neue). It replaced the Palmer Method of Business Writing[1], which is quite distinct from the the cursive that is taught in schools today (Zaner-Bloser[2] or D'Nealian[3]).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Method

2: http://content.yudu.com/web/y5b2/0A3vbrb/16Grade6Student/htm...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D'Nealian

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Re:Is Handwriting History? by xoroshiro on Monday August 07, 2017 @02:56AM (#14945796)
As someone who was forced to learn Palmer style in school, I must say I always hated the capital Q. I don't know if I just couldn't get it right, or I never really saw it as legible, but it annoyed me that it looked too much like a 2. I went back to block letters in college and never thought much of penmanship.

Until college, when I learned a bit of LaTeX and became fascinated with fonts. Still hate that Q though. Thank goodness for computers.

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