How My Handwriting Has Changed Since Preschool from The Oatmeal is a comic strip I heavily identify with.
Somebody analyses Stephen King’s handwriting.
Survey shows cursive, on the decline, is taught in many classrooms nationwide from Washington Post Education
Is Handwriting Threatened By Technology? from Yet Another Blog
The End Of Pens: Is handwriting worth saving? from Slate
Handwritten Manuscript Pages From Classic Novels from Flavorwire
Free to download handwritten fonts
High Wire Act: Why I Started Writing By Hand from The Millions
Conservatives Are Very Upset That Kids These Days Can’t Write in Cursive
The fear of Handwriting- Graphophobia.
Especially intricate characters—such as Chinese hanzi and Japanese kanji—activate motor regions in the brain involved in forming those characters on paper: The brain literally goes through the motions of writing when reading, even if the hands are empty. Researchers recently discovered that the same thing happens in a milder way when some people read cursive.
– from The Reading Brain in Scientific American
Apparently, this book is a leader in the field of handwriting forgery.
Once you reach your “age of graphic maturity” — usually sometime in your teens–you’ve hit a peak of your ability and are unlikely to get much better. If anything, your writing gets worse: Handwriting deteriorates with old age and its decreptitudes–bad vision, stiff fingers, hand tremors.
- Six Feet Under, Mary Roach
