cursive
Sign in to savethumb|Example of classic American business cursive handwriting known as Spencerian script, from 1884
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23 sectionsContents
- History
- Subclasses
- Ligature
- Looped
- Italic
- Origin
- Bengali
- Chinese
- English
- Cursive writing in the United Kingdom
- Cursive writing in North America
- Development in the 18th and 19th centuries
- Decline of English cursive in the United States
- <span class="anchor" id="Conservation efforts and cognitive benefits"></span> Conservation efforts and effects on the learning disabled
- German
- Greek
- Marathi
- Roman
- Russian
- Examples
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Example of classic American business cursive handwriting known as Spencerian script, from 1884
Cursive (also known as joined-up writing) is any style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to block letters. It varies in functionality and modern-day usage across languages and regions, being used both publicly in artistic and formal documents as well as in private communication. Formal cursive is generally joined, but casual cursive is a combination of joins and pen lifts. The writing style can be further divided as "looped", "italic", or "connected".