Serif Handwriting

Two weeks ago, I got bored. So I sat down with five blank sheets of paper, and decided to design a handwriting style based off of Courier New. I ended up  getting so used toit that now it’s more natural for me to write with slabs than without them.

I’m not really good at explaining whack like this, so I decided to just upload three big grayscale pictures of the alphabet + some nonverbal instructions on how to draw the stuff yourself along with a few small additives as well.
So, here we go:

Diagram 1

Diagram 2

Diagram 3

Slab-Serif chicken scratch handwriting is easier to read and also has ~way~ more braggability rights than regular chicken scratch handwriting.

Here are a few character-specific issues I ran into that you peoples might want to rifle through:

[A]: The slab on the top is a tad hard to write the first few times, but you’ll get the hang of it soon enough.

[a]:Arguably the most elegant and cool-looking of the bunch. When’s the last time you’ve ever used a complex-form ‘a’ in normal handwriting?

[BCDEFG]: Smooth sailing through uppercase letters B,C,D,E,F, and G.

[bc]: Same for lowercase letters b and c.

[d]: The upper slab that hangs in over the rest of the ‘d’ looks cool. Just sayin’…

[e]: As mentioned in Diagram 1, it looks kind of cool if you make this a tad longer than you usually write it. (Be careful, IMOxP, it can get pretty easy to overdo it.)

[f]: No problems here.

[gjypq]: You may be tempted to fold over the part of the letter that goes below the bottom line, like Paige did in
the Foxtrot comic that originally aired on [date] . Don’t try it. It looks girly. And serifs aren’t girly.

[H]: Unfortunately, writing ‘H’ is pretty cumbersome. It takes two or three unnatural strokes to complete. Tough it out, or don’t write anything with ‘H’ in it.

[hijlnPpQqrSsTUuVvXxZz]: No problems here.

[Kk]:A little fugly when you first start getting used to them, but It’ll happen soon enough.

[Mm]:’M’ and ‘m’ can get really long really fast. Be careful and use your common sense.

[N]: In my experience, it was kind of hard to remember to not put a serif on the bottom of the line slanting downward.

[Oo]: As in Diagram 2, see caption on ‘e’.

[pPqQ]: All j00r problemz are belong to us.

[R]: With practice, you can teach yourself to write a fairly neat ‘R’ in one stroke.

[r]:looks better if you make the very end of the letter jut down a bit. But that’s just kind of my style. Don’t do it if you don’t want to.

[t]:doesn’t have any serifs.

[Yy]:Y AND y ARE POISON. KILL-THEM-WITH-FIRE. No, seriously; If you can come up with a better way to write them, please enlighten me and the rest of the crowd.

That’s all I have.

Also: Don’t be afraid to adjust this to fit you better. If everyone decided to tweak his/her writing style to look exactly the same as each others, they might as well also
burn off their fingerprints through cancer therapy methods. Good luck!