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I took no care with this. No effort could improve my terrible handwriting. Most people says it's obnoxiously tiny, and this scan is a bit blown up:



The opening from Sam Delany's dhalgren, which I hate and love but mostly hate.

Because my rule is reduction of print size at all costs my n, u, and r all tend to pretty much look the same. This is just the first and easiest example that comes to mind of the ways in which my letters have turned into vague suggestions of the letters I intend.

My average e looks like a c.

The dot of my standard i probably doesn't clear the body.

Bits of letter that should be distinct from other bits just generally run right into those other bits. In quantity (and at actual size) it results in impenetrable black walls of text few people can make sense of.

But at its actual size everything looks very tidy.
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My current handwriting actually resulted from a conscious decision to make it as small and precise as possible when I was about twelve or so. Before that it was all big round letters w/ huge loops etc. My current scribble actually works best when using certain "micro" point roller ball pens, but I prefer the feel of a certain Lamy "extra fine" fountain pen, so that's what I used for my example despite it loosening things up a bit, resulting in less neat print.

It's possible that I think about these things too much.

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A Sanford uni-ball ONYX micro was the pen of my childhood and what I use if nothing else is at hand.

At some point before I stumbled on to a relatively cheap fountain pen I took to writing w/ a Copic Multiliner SP with a .25 nib. Since it was an "art" pen I had to replace the nibs every 100 pages or so.

I've never found a Pilot pen that I'm that fond of, but I think it's just because of my desire for the finer line which obviously isn't in the interest of others.

Excuse me for continuing to add things, but I think way too much about the tools for someone with my horrible scrawl.
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