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Post by ole on Dec 23, 2020 4:59:44 GMT
Hmm, my handwriting "style" depends on which pen I am using, my mood, my concentration level etc. wonder what they would say about that? Mine too. For years, it would randomly change radically all of a sudden in mid sentence. I've had no control over that. I've recently tried to tame my writing, but that's still an underlying trait. In my case, I just put it down to good old fashioned mental illness and I'm good with that.
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Post by jamberrychoux on Dec 23, 2020 5:17:48 GMT
Hmm, my handwriting "style" depends on which pen I am using, my mood, my concentration level etc. wonder what they would say about that? Mine too. For years, it would randomly change radically all of a sudden in mid sentence. I've had no control over that. I've recently tried to tame my writing, but that's still an underlying trait. In my case, I just put it down to good old fashioned mental illness and I'm good with that.
My handwriting has changed drastically over the years. When I was in elementary school, in my classes, I was always known as the kid with super neat handwriting. I would be the one asked to write out stuff on the chalkboard for the class to see because my writing was always so clean and legible looking. As a young adult, I think my writing still looked pretty good. Then, as I got older, I would feel pressed for time, and then would rush through my writing. I didn't want to make time anymore for that same kind of precise writing. That's when it started to get kind of sloppy looking. And, every year, it got a little more untidy. So, what I have today, I hope it doesn't get anymore untidy looking. It might get to the point where it might be illegible!
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Post by Lupine on Jan 17, 2021 13:15:24 GMT
I found another hobby! I like to read through pages of old conversations on this forum and learn things! This topic caught my eye because I just learned about "left oblique" nib grinds that are apparently nice for right handed people who tend to roll their nib to the left so that looking down at your hand, you can see the face of the nib as you write. I have been practicing rolling the nib to the right more so that my view of the nib is more three quarter, mostly the feed underneath and guess what, I get a smother and fatter line with more ink laid on the page.
This is not really so much a matter of grip as it is of nib tip angle of contact with the paper, but it's in this ballpark and I've loved this conversation. I have to practice making this adjustment because I automatically expect a certain "view" of my pen when I'm writing.
I can either get the left oblique grind (which would be cool) or learn to hold the pen correctly. Joking here, I understand there is no "correct" way.
I also loved the topic of handwriting analysis. To this day I look at someone who slants their letters backwards with a side eye. I once learned that meant untrustworthiness.
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Post by ole on Jan 17, 2021 15:29:39 GMT
...I also loved the topic of handwriting analysis. To this day I look at someone who slants their letters backwards with a side eye. I once learned that meant untrustworthiness. Backwards slant is rare in my experience, but I've seen it a few times. It looks really strange. I wonder why people chose to do that. It certainly has character, so perhaps that's why.
As for a regular slant I think I know how that could have come about. As I'm playing with trying to neaten up my writing these days, and specifically wanting a vertical style with no forward slant, I noticed that if I slant the writing forward it automatically looks more neat - despite actually being the same. The slant gives an illusion of neatness. I think what's happening is the eye easily detects slight variations in vertical lines, but it's harder to see variations in parallelity with slanted lines.
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Post by hilary on Feb 27, 2023 1:24:49 GMT
Well, I'm pretty sure my grip is all wrong. The pen rests between my pointer and middle finger, which I think is incorrect right off the bat. And actually "rests" is not the right way to describe what the poor pen is doing. I have a death grip, so the pen is, more accurately, getting the life squeezed out of it. I have a giant writer's bump on my middle finger.
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Post by distractedmom on Feb 28, 2023 4:53:56 GMT
Well, I'm pretty sure my grip is all wrong. The pen rests between my pointer and middle finger, which I think is incorrect right off the bat. And actually "rests" is not the right way to describe what the poor pen is doing. I have a death grip, so the pen is, more accurately, getting the life squeezed out of it. I have a giant writer's bump on my middle finger. I totally have a bump on my middle finger, and I write so poorly that I move my entire arm. My sister used to refuse to do her homework at the same table as me because I shook the whole table.
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