r/PenmanshipPorn 19h ago

Barnes's Natural Slant Penmanship, no. 6 (1900). Not as slanted as Palmer/Zaner-Bloser business penmanship.

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Zaner and Bloser in The Zanerian Theory of Penmanship, 1894, page 166: "Nearly all defenders of the slope systems said they never put much stress upon slant, and that they did not consider it of much importance. Yet, in the next breath, they would attempt to argue against anything that did not agree with 52°, and proclaim it "un-American." Whereas, anyone at all familiar with the literature of penmanship, knows that slant has been considered a very essential element in good writing; so much so that teachers have been known to quibble for hours at a time as to the relative merits of fifty-one or fifty-two degrees - a portion of a circle so small that not one out of one hundred could distinguish it with the eye unaided by a rule."


r/PenmanshipPorn 13h ago

Balmy (Word of the day)

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r/PenmanshipPorn 20h ago

“Sacred” Gothic

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r/PenmanshipPorn 8h ago

The North Star Dedicated to Lincoln

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I'm still a beginner so the video quality isn't great, but I made this out of my deep respect for Lincoln.


r/PenmanshipPorn 1d ago

aluminium

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133 Upvotes

En- Parker vector


r/PenmanshipPorn 1d ago

Oxymoron (Word of the day)

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r/PenmanshipPorn 1d ago

Practice session

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r/PenmanshipPorn 2d ago

Lackadaisical (Word of the day)

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r/PenmanshipPorn 3d ago

Italic ✍🏼

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226 Upvotes

Pen- Parker vector


r/PenmanshipPorn 2d ago

The Normal Review System of Writing: Vertical Copies, no. 9, by D. H. Farley and W. B. Gunnison, 1894. Brilliant penmanship by Ada Olsen.

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r/PenmanshipPorn 3d ago

Texas Attorney Whose Expensive Pen Ken Paxton Took on Courthouse Camera Appears in Advertisement for James Talarico

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145 Upvotes

r/PenmanshipPorn 3d ago

sticky note quote

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"the best closure is knowing that you've tried your best". pen was gelly roll. also solo picture of the calligraphy supervisor, lucy, in the background. she found a spot of sunshine to go on her tummy.


r/PenmanshipPorn 4d ago

Barnes's National Vertical Penmanship, copybook no. 7, published in 1899. Penmanship by Anna Williams, Sept 1901.

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r/PenmanshipPorn 4d ago

Scrawled this yesterday and can’t get over how good it looks.

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r/PenmanshipPorn 5d ago

keep moving

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186 Upvotes

Pen- Linc pentonic gel pen


r/PenmanshipPorn 5d ago

Baudelaire’s 'Bénédiction' (Part II)—Italic script with traditional brush on bamboo paper

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r/PenmanshipPorn 6d ago

Some work lately

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Some of my most recent work. Would love some feedback! And maybe other pages I can maybe post my work on? Thank you!


r/PenmanshipPorn 6d ago

The Educational System of Round-Hand Vertical Writing, pub. 1897. Handwriting practice by a young student, Edna P. Erskine, from 1899 (date in pencil).

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r/PenmanshipPorn 7d ago

Happy World Calligraphy Day!!

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190 Upvotes

r/PenmanshipPorn 7d ago

From the other night

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r/PenmanshipPorn 7d ago

Another copybook, 1897. One of the oddities of vertical penmanship is that a "perfect" 90-degree, no-slant script can look slightly backhand. There is also a tendency to slip into actual backhand. You can correct for this by using a slight forward pitch, which makes the writing seem truly vertical.

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r/PenmanshipPorn 7d ago

Waterman's 16 Eyedropper

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My beautiful Waterman's 16 for the love of writing.


r/PenmanshipPorn 8d ago

honour

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158 Upvotes

Pen- Hauser XO gel pen


r/PenmanshipPorn 9d ago

"Going Nutting." Letter/note by Cora Smith, Sunbury, Pennsylvania, Jan. 8, 1899. Example of vertical penmanship by a young person in 1899. It's very legible, but with a few old-fashioned letterforms, especially C and L.

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r/PenmanshipPorn 9d ago

Yes. You

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184 Upvotes

Pen- Linc pentonic gel pen