My printing became happy.<\/p>\n
And some people have said that it looks like girl’s handwriting.<\/p>\n
Handwriting evolves over time.<\/p>\n In the past three years, my handwriting has evolved more, because I write on the train, and keeping a pen steady on a moving vehicle while sitting in a cramped seat requires a rock-steady hand.<\/p>\n Recently, I’ve noticed that my handwriting looks a bit like a left-hander’s handwriting, with the tell-tale bent-backward look. I’ve also noticed that, at times, I write some letters backward, starting where I would normally end and ending where I would ordinarily start.<\/p>\n I blame the train.<\/p>\n I’ve sometimes thought about turning my handwriting into a font; there are services that will do that for you. I like my handwriting that<\/i> much, after all. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n But, a few years ago, I found a handwriting font that’s close enough for me.<\/p>\n “Augie,” from Emerald City Fontwerks<\/a>.<\/p>\n I call myself a “font whore.” I don’t have an addiction to fonts, I can quit them at any time!<\/p>\n But I do like to collect fonts, because fonts are cool.<\/p>\n I’ve used Augie for “handwritten” notes. I used to use it quite a bit when I worked for EB Games; I’d type up a list of things for my staff to do, and print it out in Augie and, to be honest, my staff thought it really was<\/i> my own handwriting.<\/p>\n I like my handwriting. It’s legible, and it looks nice on the page.<\/p>\n Even though many people think it’s a girl’s handwriting. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I’m told that my handwriting looks like a girl’s handwriting. I can’t write in cursive. I forgot how to do so many, many years ago. Instead, my printing, which in high school had been crabby, jangly, and even a little jerky, began to transform into something a little more fluid, a little more open, aContinue reading “On the Look and Feel of My Handwriting”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[794,746,4093,101],"class_list":["post-5751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes","tag-cursive","tag-handwriting","tag-life","tag-plinky","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/plinky-assets\/images\/32351\/medium\/1302958412.jpg?201141675332\")
Does it? I’m not sure. (This example of my handwriting, by the way, is my handwritten draft of “Ouch!<\/a>,” a really short Doctor Who<\/i>-meets-The-Rutles story I wrote one commute on a lark.)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"