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Introduction to Spencerian Handwriting
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349 students

Introduction to Spencerian Handwriting

Learn How To Write in Cursive!
Created byDoris Fullgrabe
Last updated 5/2021
English
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What you'll learn

  • Rules and components of the Spencerian handwriting style
  • Uppercase and lowercase alphabet
  • Numbers
  • Using tools like guidelines
  • Adopting a beginners mindset

Course content

5 sections • 15 lectures • 50m total length

  • Guidelines and Setting Up2:31

    Learn to generate and print Spencerian handwriting guidelines from Shiprock guidelines, adjust margins, portrait or landscape orientation, and size with x height ratios, while setting up posture for comfort.

  • Spencerian Rules for Size, Components, and Connections3:28

    Identify seven Spencerian components that form lowercase and capital letters, and explain two-to-one-to-two proportions, 52-degree slant, ascender space, x-height letters, and four connection styles.

  • Spencerian Rules for Spacing2:08

    Learn spencerian spacing rules to achieve balanced handwriting. Practice with grouped strokes and letter forms, apply one-letter spaces, one-and-a-quarter connections, and exceptions for a, d, g, q.

Requirements

  • None

Description

In this class, we’re going to cover the component strokes, connections, and spacing rules of writing letters in Spencerian cursive, as well as all lowercase and uppercase letters.

Based on the system developed by Platt Rogers Spencer in 1840, the Spencerian script has been taught in American businesses and schools until the 1920s.

Strict rules allow this form of penmanship to attain levels of mathematical precision, while leaving room for adding personal character to your handwriting with flourishes in the capital letters.

Since this is a class for handwriting practice, we won’t insist on being 100% precise. I want you to feel comfortable using this cursive style in everyday situations. So we’ll start by going over the component strokes and the rules, and then it’s up to you how many you want to break as we go on practicing individual letters, and writing words and phrases.

Since you will be learning a new way of writing, it doesn’t matter what your handwriting looks like now. So feel free to get back into a beginners mindset, which means this might be frustrating at first, but if you keep at it, you’ll see progress in no time.

You'll also find three extra lessons where I'll demo warm-up drills and exercises, and we'll also take a quick look at the Palmer method for handwriting, and the differences between Spencerian handwriting, Spencerian Calligraphy, and Spencerian Letting.

Ready? Let’s get started!

Who this course is for:

  • People who want to learn cursive handwriting
  • People who want to improve or refresh their cursive style

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