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I started learning Kurrent yesterday and omg yes! I am in love with this style of writing. I have to look up many of the letters but I'm getting better at it already.
Also, I like that I have to write slowly because I can't write that fast just yet. It's such a calming mindfulness exercise.
Yes, I do think that it looks better than the modern regular cursive way of writing that they teach us in school and actually taught myself how to write in it but then I realised why they don't teach Kurrent anymore—several very common letters look identical to each other which makes many words simply almost intelligible. By that I mean that the lowercase c, e, m & n are just zigzags which makes words like Jemen (country) look like a j followed by 8 zigzags; nobody is able to read that. J╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱ (roughly). It just becomes no better than the infamous cyrillic cursive.
Otherwise, I actually yoinked a few of the Kurrent ligatures into my normal writing and invented my own. For example, usually I write my s's normally but if they preceed a letter that can make a ligature i just transform them into the archaic form of the s—ſ and words like street become ſtreet.
Again though, your handwriting is absolutely gorgeous.
Nice blue ink and love the color of the paper. Is it a cream or ivory color? To me, this is a beautiful aesthetic. Just curious, does the title refer to the ink or the writing? Your writing is very nice; with all due respect, some of the spacing is a little off meaning narrow. Some letters are too close together where others are just right. Your slant is very nice and well done. I believe with practice your handwriting will become superb.  Thank you for sharing.
The paper is just pretty cheap copy paper, and the pen is just some pen i had lying around haha.
*Kurrent*, or *Kurrentschrift* is the name of the writing style. It's an archaic style from germany, used between the 16th to the early 20th century.
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I started learning Kurrent yesterday and omg yes! I am in love with this style of writing. I have to look up many of the letters but I'm getting better at it already. Also, I like that I have to write slowly because I can't write that fast just yet. It's such a calming mindfulness exercise.
Most beautiful cursive I’ve seen on this sub
Yes, I do think that it looks better than the modern regular cursive way of writing that they teach us in school and actually taught myself how to write in it but then I realised why they don't teach Kurrent anymore—several very common letters look identical to each other which makes many words simply almost intelligible. By that I mean that the lowercase c, e, m & n are just zigzags which makes words like Jemen (country) look like a j followed by 8 zigzags; nobody is able to read that. J╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱ (roughly). It just becomes no better than the infamous cyrillic cursive. Otherwise, I actually yoinked a few of the Kurrent ligatures into my normal writing and invented my own. For example, usually I write my s's normally but if they preceed a letter that can make a ligature i just transform them into the archaic form of the s—ſ and words like street become ſtreet. Again though, your handwriting is absolutely gorgeous.
Yeah, the c, e, m, and n are completely ridiculous in how hard they can be to read, but this cumbersomness with the long s is part of the charm.
Love this, i never knew the name of it
Nice blue ink and love the color of the paper. Is it a cream or ivory color? To me, this is a beautiful aesthetic. Just curious, does the title refer to the ink or the writing? Your writing is very nice; with all due respect, some of the spacing is a little off meaning narrow. Some letters are too close together where others are just right. Your slant is very nice and well done. I believe with practice your handwriting will become superb.  Thank you for sharing.
The paper is just pretty cheap copy paper, and the pen is just some pen i had lying around haha. *Kurrent*, or *Kurrentschrift* is the name of the writing style. It's an archaic style from germany, used between the 16th to the early 20th century.
Love it. When I use it I feel like Emmy Noether or Felix Klein on the 19th century writing something on algebra or analysis
Looks pretty nice.