[foobarian]

Couple of my favorite handwriting activities are writing in architectural font letters, and some bastard "gothic" I made up. With architectural fonts, the shapes slant diagonally a bit, so letter like P the half-circle points about 20 degrees up which makes it easer to separate it from the next letter and hence more legible.

The gothic font (along the lines what you get image searching "fraktur" or "gothic font") is good for some cards or signs or something, it's a bit slow to write, but because of the corners being so discontinuous it has a very distinct look to it. It doesn't really need a calligraphy pen either.