A calligrapher and artist, she started teaching handwriting at a local school, basing her letters on italic script—the elegant, quick form developed in early-16 th-century Italy.

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

According to graphologist Kathi McKnight, your handwriting can communicate more than you may think. In particular, the way you write l, t, i, and y indicates a lot about your personality. Monica ...

Tired of texting? Send your loved ones some snail mail instead. Rachel Syme, author of "Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence," shares whimsical ways to start a letter-writing habit.

The different styles of writing and joining the letters together is almost an art. Somehow along the way, handwriting disappeared from our elementary school curriculum's. This happened almost with ...

Some letters are called long ladder letters because they have a long straight line in them.. For example: l, i, t, u, j and y. Watch the following clip to learn more about these letters.

Imagine an army of robots holding real pens, writing real letters that look eerily realistic to a human’s handwriting. That’s the idea behind Handwrytten, an Arizona-based company that was one ...

The letters here, from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, show that an artist might put pen to paper just as he or she would apply a line to a drawing. For each artist, a leading authority ...

A reader praises David L. Ulin for using his daily neighborhood walk to portray Los Angeles so beautifully. An author's daily walk produces beautiful writing for Times readers - Los Angeles Times ...

Writing out the same word again and again in cursive may bring back bad memories for some, but handwriting can boost connectivity across brain regions, some of which are implicated in learning and ...