# Penmanship = Fonts? WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2011, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penmanship-fonts-wtf/591423 "2011-08-04T04:22:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penmanship-fonts-wtf/591423/1 "2011-08-04T04:22:26Z")
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](http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/penmanship2.htm) 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. \ Am I seriously that old? ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penmanship-fonts-wtf/591423/2 "2011-08-04T04:39:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penmanship-fonts-wtf/591423/3 "2011-08-04T05:20:31Z")
[Penmanship](http://www.fontspace.com/category/penmanship) is apparently a class of fonts. Other than that, I got nothin’.