• Yerbouti
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      3 months ago

      It’s beautiful when it’s well done. Almost some sort of graphic art.

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      3 months ago

      My handwriting is anal sauce but at least at one point I wasn’t terrible at calligraphy. Those two things are not related skills at all.

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        3 months ago

        I enjoy hand brushed lettering, but I’ve never done calligraphy. Seems to be quite different than just having nice legible handwriting, its a much more structural process, more like drafting than writing

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          Somewhere in that region, yes. I find it much more of a process of drawing than writing, each individual letter gets specific attention. Maybe if you’ve done it enough you start picking up speed and start thinking about whole words.

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      3 months ago

      I wrote almost exclusively in cursive and it looks just as bad as my non-curskve writing (REALLY bad). Cursive is just so much faster and smother. Don’t gotta lift the pen for each letter.

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        It took a while to relearn cursive as an adult but it def feels nice and flowy, and switching back to printing feels slower for sure

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      3 months ago

      Plus it saves a lot of time when you’re writing things out by hand, like birthday card wishes, or a diary.