Spencerian script was developed in 1840, and began soon after to be taught in the school Spencer established specifically for that purpose. Platt Rogers Spencer, whose name the style bears, used various existing scripts as inspiration to develop a unique oval-based penmanship style that could be written very quickly and legibly to aid in matters of business correspondence as well as elegant personal letter-writing. You'll find it useful to see different approaches to the same topic.Spencerian script is a script style that was used in the United States from approximately 1850 to 1925 and was considered the American de facto standard writing style for business correspondence prior to the widespread adoption of the typewriter. There are lots of books about business penmanship on. It was tought in Europe as well to write a sped up version of roundhand, occasionally called running hand, and there exists at least one treatise on writing german kurrentschrift with this method. What makes business writing stand out are the angular, simple forms, the method of moving your arm to write instead of your fingers and the focus on speed.īut arm movement isn't exclusive to this script, however. Children don't learn good penmanship if they first have to learn print, then have to learn cursive and all that process in a matter of months instead of years. They thought they could cut time for teaching handwriting by simplifying the forms. It is no surprise almost no American writes cursive anymore. In later years, I think it was the 1950ies or 60ies, they designed new scripts under the names of Palmer and Zaner, which resemble D'Nealian pretty much and don't fall under business writing any longer.ĭ'Nealian tried to simplify handwriting but ended up in an visually unpleasing, inefficient, slow and hard to read mess. Palmer was just particularly successful in marketing his book. But in fact Palmer, Zaner, Behrensmeyer, Mills, Champion, etc. Palmer is not so much a script as a system of teaching business writing. View the Wiki Practical Cursive Booksīasically business penmanship is Spencerian minus the shaded strokes with the focus on simple forms. Please submit these as a text-post and link to your content along with a brief explanation. Truly Free/No-paywalled/No-subscribe educational videos and articles are acceptable. Refrain from posting images or videos with watermarked social handles, linking to your social profiles in the caption or comments, or links to commercial products. Self-promotion, commercial links, blogspam, and posting your own products for sale is frowned upon here in r/Handwriting. Those types of submissions are best suited for /r/penmanshipporn. Please refrain from "Look at this perfect x I made!" type posts. Refrain from posting single letters and punctuation marks. Please adhere to it when interacting with this community. Reddiquette is an informal expression of values shared by many redditors. Please select a flair most appropriate for your post so that the conversation can get started on the right foot.įlair Descriptions 4. Please follow the Submission Guidelines when posting images of handwriting. Exceptions made for genuine constructive criticism delivered in a tactful manner. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. A place for redditors to improve, show-off, and discuss handwriting.
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