Ah, the #Wikipedia page for Sütterlin: a veritable treasure trove of riveting #facts about a dead script no one's used since the invention of the #ballpoint #pen. Just what the internet needs: another exhaustive #history lesson on #obscure #handwriting that somehow merits a table of contents longer than the language itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin #Sütterlin #HackerNews #ngated

I’ve only bought one or two new fountain pens in the last several years because my collection stabilized around what I actually use. Meet my two hardest working darlings, Pilot Falcon with 14k gold nib and TWSBI Eco with stub nib. #fountainpen #handwriting #fountainpens

The End of Handwriting

https://www.wired.com/story/the-end-of-handwriting/

「人們總以為，心愛的人和重要的人，會永遠存在」 #善逸 的台詞
鬼滅無限城篇Ⅰ很有感的一段話，但蠻心疼善逸一瞬間被殘酷的成長了
#手寫 #手書き #handwriting
#文字 #語錄 #金句 #鬼滅之刃 #鬼滅の刃
#花 #flowers #はな

Why the Brain Prefers to Read on Paper

by Kris deDecker, October 25, 2013

" 'Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in its entirety as a kind of physical landscape. When we read, we construct a #MentalRepresentation of the text in which meaning is anchored to structure.

"The exact nature of such representations remains unclear, but they are likely similar to the mental maps we create of terrain—such as mountains and trails—and of man-made physical spaces, such as apartments and offices.

"Both anecdotally and in published studies, people report that when trying to locate a particular piece of written information they often remember where in the text it appeared. We might recall that we passed the red farmhouse near the start of the trail before we started climbing uphill through the forest; in a similar way, we remember that we read about Mr. Darcy rebuffing Elizabeth Bennett on the bottom of the left-hand page in one of the earlier chapters.

"In most cases, paper books have more obvious topography than onscreen text. An open paperback presents a reader with two clearly defined domains—the left and right pages—and a total of eight corners with which to orient oneself. A reader can focus on a single page of a paper book without losing sight of the whole text: one can see where the book begins and ends and where one page is in relation to those borders. One can even feel the thickness of the pages read in one hand and pages to be read in the other.

"Turning the pages of a paper book is like leaving one footprint after another on the trail—there’s a rhythm to it and a visible record of how far one has traveled. All these features not only make text in a paper book easily navigable, they also make it easier to form a coherent mental map of the text.' "

https://www.notechmagazine.com/2013/10/why-the-brain-prefers-to-read-on-paper.html

Little tasks really pile up when you think about it. It can get overwhelming!

This #OneNote Trick Converts My #Handwriting to Perfectly Legible #Text

https://www.makeuseof.com/onenote-convert-handwriting-to-text/

Handwriting Hangout by @dyosaimma makes cursive with fountain pens fun and practical. Book your Session for MIPS2025 and get show-exclusive workbook and practice sheets at your class!
https://mips.show

Missed our latest launch? We’ve added 24 stunning new handwriting fonts (TTF & SVG) to our collection—realistic, versatile, & perfect for any use. Bulk buyers get them FREE!
https://www.quantumenterprises.co.uk/handwriting-fonts
#Fonts #Handwriting #SVG #Scriptalizer

Mystery photo from my late grandmother's stash. Train passengers(?) pose with a boulder that's fallen on the tracks and blocked their progress. No idea what connection this has to my grandmother.

The back has a note, but I can read only some of the words. "Compliments [illegible, possibly a joke word] Charleston, WVa, May 22 1908"

We went to a 'Voices of Women" exhibit in #Barcelona, and, friends, look at the #handwriting.

Centuries old and I'm absolutely learning from these documents today.

Today, I'm diving into the National Archives to lose myself in transcribing penmanship of depositions from Revolutionary War pensioner files. I want something inside while avoiding this hot, smoky week.

Taking the journey through the #handwriting of veterans attesting to their service in hopes of obtaining their pensions, while daydreaming of my own pensioner days on the horizon has been a comforting pastime for me. 1/2

#genealogy #volunteer #transcriptionist
#penmanship #gethired #fedijobs

good morning Americans

if you wish to engrave something upon your heart, first inscribe it with your hands and profess it with your voice.

Technology Killed My Handwriting https://mtwb.blog/technology-killed-my-handwriting/ #writing #amwritign #penmanship #handwriting #lostskills #blogging #blog #blogpost #bloggingcommunity

I read the letter Taylor Swift published regarding her music rights acquisition (on https://www.taylorswift.com/ - also reproduced in the Variety article: https://variety.com/2025/music/news/taylor-swift-buys-rights-first-six-albums-shamrock-1236413964/). She's gotten some shade about her handwriting on the socials. But it looks like a font based on her handwriting, too uniform to actually be handwritten. Her writing angle interested me, so I searched and learned that she holds a pen in an atypical way -- you can see this in the "ME!" lyric video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S--WI8PUVVo).

I'm sure this is TS101 for real Swifties, but I'm just a casual fan.

(Also: c'mon Tay, include alt text next time!)

The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript: L.M. Montgomery & the Creation of Anne [Shared]

The manuscript is housed in the collections of the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Both sides of each page (recto and verso) were scanned at the Robertson Library's Digitization Lab at the University of Prince Edward Island.

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/05/25/the-anne-of-green-gables-manuscript-l-m-montgomery-the-creation-of-anne-shared/

#book #history #anneofgreengables #greengables #montgomery #princeedwardisland #canada #books #writing #Reading #manuscript #handwriting

@altbot

I always write in #cursive #handwriting and I avoid having digital #clocks in my home. It amuses me when people come over and they can’t read or tell time. #education (https://calebh.top/?p=262)

#vintage #handwriting #history #question

I would love to see styles of antiquated handwriting, to model.
Peope used to be so good at writing, because writing by hand used to be important and meaningful.

I am probably most interested in examples from 11th to 17th century.
The sweet spot in the middle would be 14th century, but there were amazing examples all through this span!

So what I really would love is... access to resources that are hundreds of thousands of sorted images, or everything a specific scribe or writer ever did compiled cleanly in a high quality pdf,
and like hundreds of thousands of those.

Possibly entire digitised libraries of antiquated hand written books or papers from historical documents?

Can anyone point out some references like this that are high quality and expansive?

I am not against resources in multiple languages either. Handwriting is so cool.

Thank you!