Huh, I’m today learning calligraphy and cursive not synonyms
Though we don’t really use the word cursive in the UK, we just call it handwriting or the slightly awkward “joined-up handwriting” if you need to be specific, though that’s pretty much only with kids learning to write
Calligraphy just kind of means “pretty writing”, it’s not bound to a specific style. Edward Johnston used the term “penmanship” more often. Cursive means that the letters are formed in a “running” way, as opposed to the many times you have to lift the nib in some other styles.
Even the romans had a cursive form of the letters we now refer to as “capitals” or “upper case”.
This is how we’ve (myself and the kids in my class, at least) been taught to write cursive, yes - m’s and n’s rounded at the top of the swing, and u’s and w’s with the downward side being rounded. The only acute downward swing I know is in some version of v’s, but I’ve also seen a lot of people rounding their v’s out of inertia a lot of the time.
The only cursive there is the couple of ii and the u. And the u is a stretch.
Huh, I’m today learning calligraphy and cursive not synonyms
Though we don’t really use the word cursive in the UK, we just call it handwriting or the slightly awkward “joined-up handwriting” if you need to be specific, though that’s pretty much only with kids learning to write
Calligraphy just kind of means “pretty writing”, it’s not bound to a specific style. Edward Johnston used the term “penmanship” more often. Cursive means that the letters are formed in a “running” way, as opposed to the many times you have to lift the nib in some other styles. Even the romans had a cursive form of the letters we now refer to as “capitals” or “upper case”.
In german its easier
“schreibschrift” (writefont) = handwritten joined letter where you seldom lift the pen
“Druckschrift” (printfont) = singular letters (handwritten and printed)
“Kallgrafie” (calligraphy)= particularly nice font (mostly reffering to handwritten joined letters
“Kursiv” (cursive) = angled petters like this (engl. Italic)
This is how we’ve (myself and the kids in my class, at least) been taught to write cursive, yes - m’s and n’s rounded at the top of the swing, and u’s and w’s with the downward side being rounded. The only acute downward swing I know is in some version of v’s, but I’ve also seen a lot of people rounding their v’s out of inertia a lot of the time.