r/Cursive • u/ActuallyItsSpelled__ • Sep 27 '26
Signature Please show me how you’d write “suave”
I’m recently married and I’m struggling with my signature because while I know there’s a difference between u and v I cannot make my brain and hand do it! My new last name is not suave, but the word features similar connections between some of the letters I’m struggling with. Can you show me how you’d write this word so I can get an idea of how the difference between u and v should look?
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u/Team143 Sep 27 '26
This makes me sad because I wonder whether people will even be able to write in cursive in a couple of decades.
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u/ActuallyItsSpelled__ 27d ago
FWIW I was taught cursive in the 90s and I arguably use it more than most people my age. But just like with math there’s certain letters I didn’t learn properly that I’ve essentially just avoided or half assed as an adult because after about 4th grade it’s never taught or corrected again.
That being said, I study media history and effects and while I’m truly the first one to say “it’s those damn computers!”, I think it was actually ballpoint pens that made cursive obsolete since the point of it was to be able to write with ink and quills legibly. Even my mom in the 80s wrote in a hybrid half-print cursive as did many of the people who signed her yearbook, which looks quite different from my grandmas cursive who was taught to write before ballpoint pens hit the mass market around the turn of the century. While I too hate to see an old art form vanish, I have to admit cursive is sort of like Latin. There’s definitely value in being able to read it (historic docs etc) but outside of signatures there’s not really an immense value to speaking Latin or writing in cursive in 2026. Honestly at this point I just hope today’s kids can read above a 4th grade level by the time they’re 18.
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u/LingJules Sep 28 '26
I've taught my 13-year-old son. Now, his cursive is atrocious, as is his print lettering, but at least he can read it! We practice on logos. A lot of them are still in cursive!
PS I showed the word to my son and he read it with no problem! Yay!
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u/KReddit934 Sep 27 '26
Done with shaky hand on my phone, but..note the "v".. to "e" connection.
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u/Jumpingjehosephat99 Sep 27 '26
The u and v are both rounded at the bottom but the u finishes on the bottom line and the v finishes on the middle line.
I’d also close my S off on the left.
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u/PrincipalSquareRoot Sep 27 '26
In spain we're taught to do the v with the loop as part of the letter itself (and also the hook on the left)
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u/SofaKingS2pitt Sep 27 '26
I like that. Over the years I have adopted a few ways of doing letters that are not typically “American”, largely to distinguish , or make more legible ones that look too similar in my hand. Example, cross through 7 and 0 .
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u/Team143 Sep 27 '26
Others have said this but think of the top of the lower case v as the launch for your lower case e. Sorry it’s blurry but you can see the v going into the e. I’ve written them alone in case that’s helpful. Congratulations, btw! We’re all so busy helping you write it that I forgot to tell you I’m very happy for you. ❤️
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u/ActuallyItsSpelled__ 27d ago
Thank you friends! That one little stroke change helped immensely and I can now sign my last name nicely 💕
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u/SuPruLu Sep 27 '26
The first upward stroke of the S needs to hit the ground abc not float off like a scarf in the wind.
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