Discover Your Unique Hand Lettering Style through Cursive
In this post, we explore 5 traditional cursive handwriting styles. Study the styles and apply them to your own hand lettering and handwriting practice so you can develop your own personal style!
Whether you want to learn to write in cursive handwriting or if you just want to expand your style, this post is for you.
Discover your own hand lettering style by exploring these five cursive methods!
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Cursive is a funny animal. While most schools aren’t even teaching cursive anymore, hand letterers are scrambling to learn different styles in order to practice calligraphy and also help find their signature style.
Recently I read a book (a real, paper book!) called Script & Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting. While the book isn’t as hand lettering focused as I’d hoped, the last chapter was a very interesting dive into asking the question, “Is Handwriting Important?”
You can guess my answer is a huge resounding YES, especially as a base for hand lettering and calligraphy. The super interesting thing about this chapter also is it explored different cursive teaching methods as of late, starting with the very scripty and elegant Spencerian script and ending with the very upright and almost-typeface looking “Handwriting Without Tears” method.
I wanted to share these five varieties with you, as I think it’s important we go back to our roots, whip out some lined paper, and simply practice our handwriting with purpose.
Below are my five interpretations of these five cursive scripts, as well as an opportunity for you to download and print sheets to help you trace and practice various methods.
These worksheets will help get you on your way to practicing these cursive styles on your own and seeing what styles you like best and why.
With these worksheets, you can:
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Print them and trace over them
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Import them into Procreate
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Import them into Notability or Good Notes
These 10 worksheets will help get you on your way to practicing these cursive styles on your own and seeing what styles you like best and why. Try Spencerian, D’Nealian, Zaner-Bloser, Palmer, and Handwriting Without Tears.
You can print these worksheets or load them onto your iPad and practice by tracing over the worksheets in Procreate, Notability, or GoodNotes.
What’s your favorite of these cursive scripts? Why do you want to improve your cursive handwriting?
Cover photo via Hannah Olinger.
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