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Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
December 02 2012 12:07 GMT
#21
1: sometimes just a line, sometimes with serifs
2: I used to make the little curl thing but I stopped
3: not much variation here?
4: I don't close the top, but get pretty close (no right-angle-only 4's)
5: not much variation; I write everything but the top first, and then draw the top horizontal line
6: eh
7: I cross them
8: start on the right, make figure eight
9: circle first, then straight vertical line
0: sometimes clockwise, sometimes counter-clockwise (???) I can't actually decide what I do "most of the time"
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Nazza
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Australia1654 Posts
December 02 2012 13:37 GMT
#22
Write an S

then do a slash between the open bits
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[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
December 03 2012 02:01 GMT
#23
[image loading]

Top is how I was taught in school, bottom is approximately what I do now.

What happens to my 5's is I start out at the top right but about half the time the top part is too short for the rest of the 5 so I end up drawing the extra bit on at the end. Every time I do this my 5 slowly starts looking like my dad's (who does that all the time and that's how he was taught)

I don't cross my 7 because I have that thing on top left to distinguish it from my 1. And then I just started adding it to my 3's for some reason.
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[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
December 03 2012 02:11 GMT
#24
4chan is getting into a shitstorm about how they write their sevens
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HollowLord
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States3862 Posts
December 03 2012 15:14 GMT
#25
I have motor dysgraphia so I can't make it at all
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imPermanenCe
Profile Joined July 2011
Netherlands595 Posts
December 03 2012 17:49 GMT
#26
On December 03 2012 11:01 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:
[image loading]

Top is how I was taught in school, bottom is approximately what I do now.

What happens to my 5's is I start out at the top right but about half the time the top part is too short for the rest of the 5 so I end up drawing the extra bit on at the end. Every time I do this my 5 slowly starts looking like my dad's (who does that all the time and that's how he was taught)

I don't cross my 7 because I have that thing on top left to distinguish it from my 1. And then I just started adding it to my 3's for some reason.

Wtf, your own hand writing is a lot fancier than what they actually taught you :D
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[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-03 20:18:22
December 03 2012 20:15 GMT
#27
On December 04 2012 02:49 imPermanenCe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 03 2012 11:01 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:
[image loading]

Top is how I was taught in school, bottom is approximately what I do now.

What happens to my 5's is I start out at the top right but about half the time the top part is too short for the rest of the 5 so I end up drawing the extra bit on at the end. Every time I do this my 5 slowly starts looking like my dad's (who does that all the time and that's how he was taught)

I don't cross my 7 because I have that thing on top left to distinguish it from my 1. And then I just started adding it to my 3's for some reason.

Wtf, your own hand writing is a lot fancier than what they actually taught you :D


I make up for it with extremely illegible letters.

Edit: Found the exact font they taught us to write in. Did anyone else here (most likely in US) have to do D'Nealian daily for like the first three years of school?
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Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
December 05 2012 01:30 GMT
#28
Yes. Fuck that shit and fuck cursive as well.
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jdseemoreglass
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States3773 Posts
December 05 2012 01:57 GMT
#29
The number one has always bothered me. When it's in an equation or number, 95% of the time I just draw a straight line down. But when the one is by itself, like = 1, it looks fucking weird to me, some random straight line on a page, and I have to put a flat base and bent top onto it.
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hayata2.0
Profile Joined January 2010
Canada655 Posts
December 05 2012 02:43 GMT
#30
1: no serifs, just a line
2: w/ the loop
3: no flat top
4: right angles
5: top line last, being very careful to not leave a gap or any extrusions
6: standard
7: w/ a cross (I don't know why, I don't even serif my 1's)
8: I start in the middle, so there's less of a seam.

I'm more interested in 9's though, since I don't quite know why the teach the weird 9 with the 'kink' in in at school. Ever since I tried
[image loading]
for the first time I just couldn't go back because it's faster, and just nicer overall IMO.

Also avoids the ugly/ambiguous y-like-looking-9 when writing fast ( [image loading] ) issue I had before I switched.
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