Besides Latin script (which English is written in), the only other script I've written in often enough to develop my own handwriting style, is Hebrew. My Hebrew handwriting style isn't completely Hebrew print, nor is it Hebrew cursive. (I don't generally like Ashkenazi-style Hebrew cursive that seems to be so fashionable these days.)
My most distinctively personalized letters are zayin, teth, ayin, zadhe and shin.
* My zayin actually resembles the way I used to write my lowercase S (in Latin script handwriting) as a preteen and young teenager before I was pressured to change it into a more readable form. By accident, it resurrected itself as my Hebrew zayin.
* My teth is written counterclockwise and ends with a very strong hook.
* My ayin tends to both ascend and descend, sometimes considerably in both directions. I write the bottom line from right to left first, then lift my pen and write the second line starting from the top downwards. At any given time, my ayin may or may not be broken into two lines that don't touch each other.
* My zadhe is written in two strokes, both starting from the left and ending on the right, but it's actually very comfortable for me to write quickly.
* My shin does not intentionally resemble a hand giving the finger, but it developed from my distinct preference for it having three unambiguous vertical strokes. See, I write the bottom stroke from right to left, but then (as with my ayin) I lift my pen and start the middle stroke from the top downwards, and it simply evolved into the comfortable form it is.
BACKGROUND: I used to have a much more active hobby of designing bitmap fonts. Little (usually 8x8px monospace) fonts designed for use in older 8-bit and sometimes 16-bit video games. It was kinda fun to hack ROMs to change the text fonts. Later, when Final Fantasy VI font became readily editable in 11px high proportional typeface, I started designing proportional fonts too. Nearly all my designs are revised in subtle ways over the years.
My most distinctively personalized letters are zayin, teth, ayin, zadhe and shin.
* My zayin actually resembles the way I used to write my lowercase S (in Latin script handwriting) as a preteen and young teenager before I was pressured to change it into a more readable form. By accident, it resurrected itself as my Hebrew zayin.
* My teth is written counterclockwise and ends with a very strong hook.
* My ayin tends to both ascend and descend, sometimes considerably in both directions. I write the bottom line from right to left first, then lift my pen and write the second line starting from the top downwards. At any given time, my ayin may or may not be broken into two lines that don't touch each other.
* My zadhe is written in two strokes, both starting from the left and ending on the right, but it's actually very comfortable for me to write quickly.
* My shin does not intentionally resemble a hand giving the finger, but it developed from my distinct preference for it having three unambiguous vertical strokes. See, I write the bottom stroke from right to left, but then (as with my ayin) I lift my pen and start the middle stroke from the top downwards, and it simply evolved into the comfortable form it is.
BACKGROUND: I used to have a much more active hobby of designing bitmap fonts. Little (usually 8x8px monospace) fonts designed for use in older 8-bit and sometimes 16-bit video games. It was kinda fun to hack ROMs to change the text fonts. Later, when Final Fantasy VI font became readily editable in 11px high proportional typeface, I started designing proportional fonts too. Nearly all my designs are revised in subtle ways over the years.
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