Cursive Writing Style

Posted on 01/08/2022

Cursive is a form of penmanship where the letters are joined in a continuous flow manner. It was formulated in order to have faster writing and lesser pen lifts. Many languages have their own form of cursive writing.
The basic cursive writing only joins each letter of a word but as time passed many modificationswere made in a cursive form such as looping, italics, ligature, etc. This was added to increase the writing efficiency in cursive.
Cursive writing was developed to restrain the limitations of a quill. As quill could not sustain much ink in it and had chances of leakage. In order to have proper flawless writing letters were joined. This format also increased speed while writing. Many languages adopted the joined letter format to make writing easier.
Documents created by cursive were more legit, sturdy as well as unique as the handwriting was different from one another.
The three forms which were basically developed in cursive were
• Ligature
• Looped cursive
• Cursive Italic

Ligature
This is the basic writing in cursive where they just joined at the tail ends. The main of this writing is to write faster and avoid frequent pen lifts.
Looped Cursive
Certain letters such as ‘O’, ‘L’, ‘H’, etc. were looped and joined with other letters this was used to connect certain letters easily and neatly. It presented elegance while writing.
Cursive italics
This was formed during the Italian Renaissance solely created to bring beauty while writing.

As time passed, many modifications were brought to make it beautiful and artistic in various places in their languages. Cursive writing was also introduced in schools so that children could develop good handwriting through practicing writing styles such as cursive.