03
May
How maleable is our writing?
A recent note from a friend in response to a note from me allowed for a handwriting comparison on their end. It was noted that we have almost the same handwriting except for noted differences in the ‘f’ and ‘S’ characters. That got me to thinking about how my ‘f’ had changed over time. It was stable for a long time and then in calculus the ‘f’ started looking more and more like an integral symbol.
That wasn’t a difficult change, so how easy are handwriting changes in general. I think people usually consider that pretty steady but it does change. Mine gets worse at least. Maybe it’s because of a lack of patience to write nicely.