Write Cursive With Schin

[AndyT]

Schin not being one to make a fuss about her many and various contributions to the calligraphy community, this time I thought I would.  Those who have not subscribed to her Youtube channel may be interested to hear that there is a new series on basic business writing - and jolly good it is too.  There are nine episodes so far, adding up to 3½ hours or so of inky goodness.  Here's the first part.

Once again, three cheers for Schin. 

[RobertFontaine]

The flourished majiscules are vey nice.

[Empty_of_Clouds]

Long time subscriber here. Cannot recommend Schin and her channel highly enough. 

[prasad]

Schin not being one to make a fuss about her many and various contributions to the calligraphy community,
Once again, three cheers for Schin. 

Too true Andy.

Amazing help as always Schin.
Thanks a tonne
Prasad

[Moya]

Hot damn.  I love that woman.

[ash0kgiri]

Thats great news Andy. And thanks for keeping us updated.

-Ashok

[AAAndrew]

Hot damn.  I love that woman.

I want to agree to this, but in a totally un-creepy way. Is that possible?

How about, I love that woman's work! and her posts, and her generosity, and, um... I'll just stop there.
  

[schin]

Aww thanks you guys!! It's not really business handwriting tutorial.. it's just a casual Schin-style handwriting tutorial lol.

[AndyT]

I didn't really know what to call it, Schin, because I dislike the term "cursive". 

[schin]

Really, how come?? I called it cursive cos it implies a lot less stringent rules than 'business writing'...

[AndyT]

Well, because it's a generalised descriptor and any form of writing which uses ligatures to increase speed is "cursive" by definition - including Greek, various South Asian scripts - and Chinese for that matter.  We know what we generally mean by it: a distinctively American form of handwriting deriving from 19th century business styles and with its deep roots in Spencerian, but really all it means is "joined-up writing".  This has been bugging me for a while!

Incidentally, ignoring all that, where do you think the division between business writing and American cursive lies?  It's not at all obvious to me.

[Ken Fraser]

We know what we generally mean by it: a distinctively American form of handwriting deriving from 19th century business styles and with its deep roots in Spencerian, but really all it means is "joined-up writing".  This has been bugging me for a while!
Incidentally, ignoring all that, where do you think the division between business writing and American cursive lies?  It's not at all obvious to me.

I agree that Cursive without any further explanation is meaningless because as you say, it could apply to any form of joined-up writing. With my background Cursive applies primarily to Italic Cursive which came long before Spencerian.

As far as I can tell, Business Writing and American Cursive are the same with a few minor adjustments.
Business Writing is a particularly attractive form of lettering with an unfortunately, mundane boring name. My theory is that the script was renamed American Cursive to give it the same status as the aged-old Italic Cursive (which of course relates to Italy, from where much of our present script formations derive).

[Tasmith]

Awesome!  Thank you Schin!

Speaking of cursive, I'm reminded what the American singer/actor Dean Martin once said, "I don't slur my words, I'm just talking in cursive."

[garyn]

This is neat.

THANK YOU to Schin for doing it, and Andy for posting about it.

[Erica McPhee]

Busy, busy bee!  Awesome as always!  Thanks for posting Andy!