Kesher Talk

Penmanship. Palmer cursive is hard to do well and slow. However, chancery cursive (the closest typeface is Zapf Chancery), written without an edged nib, is clean, easy to read, easy to learn, and very fast. People think of this as "calligraphy" because they usually see it written with thicks and thins, but that's just the flat nib, you can make the strokes with anything. (I wonder if this is the "Italic" mentioned in the article?)

I cannot take notes on a computer, because I like to draw arrows to things and go back and insert phrases, and make diagrams, and write sideways, so I feel like I'm in a straitjacket when I take notes typing. But I'm a very visual person and I made a living as a calligrapher for 4-5 years, so that's just me.

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posted by Judith @ 6/24/2003 01:00:50 PM