Re: xkcd: Cursive Letters

On 2024-04-23 20:20:40 +0000, Pluted Pup said:

On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:23:13 -0700, Your Name wrote:

On 2024-03-28 20:25:56 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

 xkcd: Cursive Letters
https://xkcd.com/2912/
 Is there anything that Randall cannot graph ?
 My 82 year old mother is the only person that I know that still writes
in cursive. It is almost illegible due to slant and compactness but I
love her for it anyway.
 Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2912:_Cursive_Letters
 Lynn

 I have three handwriting styles:
 Cursive writing used for things like greetings cards and my signature.
It's pretty easy to read.
 Non-cursive (aka printing or block letters) used for important
documents, such as legal or banking forms, school / university exams,
etc., that needs to be easily readable by anyone.
 And the third one is a semi-mixture of the two, which I use when
writing hurried notes for myself.

 Block letters, so that's what it's called. Using the
term "printed" is too confusing nowadays,
as in the question "is it handwritten or printed?".
 I use block letters because I want to be able to
read back what I wrote. I don't smear my characters
writing down a phone number, so I wouldn't
also mess up my readability by using cursive for words.
 Then again the term "block letters" imply someone
who writes in all capitals.
 It's all too ambiguous.

The technical term for non-cursive writing with each letter separate is "cuneive", but almost nobody uses or knows that.
There's also "architectural lettering" (used on blueprints, etc.), which is non-cursive handwriting. Basically a sub-set of block letters which is usually all uppercase letters, but can also include lowercase letters or use smaller uppercase letter to replace the lowercase ones.