Penmanship = Fonts? WTF?

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#1

Stumble has a beta feature that you type your interest in the search block and Stumble will only give you pages on that topic. I entered “penmanship”.

It took 6 different pages of fonts before getting to the first penmanship site. Since when did penmanship = fonts? I can see if I entered “handwriting” in the search box because there are a lot of “handwriting”-style fonts…but penmanship?

Did I mention that I live in the state where cursive is no longer being taught in school. <sigh>

Am I seriously that old?

#2

As someone who learned the printing trade by handsetting type in a composing stick, I’m still trying to figure out when font = typeface began.

#3

Penmanship is apparently a class of fonts. Other than that, I got nothin’.