illegible scrawl. How often do you sign your name anyway? I can’t remember the last time I had to. I don’t handwrite anything and consider the time spent in school on cursive to have been a huge waste of time. I never used it except in cursive class. Everybody types everything these days-notes, letters, everything. Even my grocery shopping list is typed. People can type far faster than they can write in cursive and everyone can read it.
Really? I signed twice today, signing credit card machines on trips to two different stores. Credit card signatures are a fact of modern life, and I probably sign about one a day on average.
I only use debit cards in actual stores (pin number). Credit cards online where you don’t have to sign.
Because historically, making lead slugs where the lines joined up was too expensive and difficult.
And if they don’t teach cursive then kids will have trouble keeping up at their new school when their parents move so their dad can take a new job “upstate somewhere.”
Although non-roman scripts whose cursive nature is considered more important to their appearance (and for which moveable-type printing developed somewhat later) do use such typefaces for printing. It is still relatively expensive and difficult compared to block-letter scripts, though.
OK, getting the lines to join up is harder, but if the shape of the individual letters are more distinct, you could still make movable type for those shapes, and just accept that they won’t connect.
Indeed, there have been many cursive typefaces even in the pre-digital era of cast type where the letters join up pretty smoothly, such as Morris Benton’s Commercial Script.