[dfxm12]

Penmanship and calligraphy, I think, are important to develop manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination & give you a way to express your individuality. The author talks about the standard font in cursive, but I learned many ways to make the letters F, X, M and more, that I felt made my writing unique among others.

I also don't think we've totally moved away from wet signatures, so they do have practical use as well.

Most non-architectural hand-writers write the letter “P” with a single stroke: draw a small loop and extend the side downward to form the stem.

I've got no architectural training, but I make my p's in two strokes (and my n's, for that matter, too).

[JackFr]

I make my eights with two circles rather than a 'figure-eight'. I always wonder how prevalent either method is, or rather more bluntly, am I weird?

[fluctor]

I do this too, but trying to change it. I learned as a figure-eight, then switched to two-circles in grad school (for some reason), but now learning Morse code and copying 8's takes too long if you don't write them as one motion.

[potta_coffee]

I do this because they just look better and they're easier to read. Figure-eights start to get sloppy when I do them and quickly become unreadable.

[kayodelycaon]

I do the two circle method of writing 8s