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Show your penmanship pride with these vintage Palmer Method badges. $24.99 (via Times Passage Nostalgia Co. )
Dewey Library Hand Font
As I’ve become enamored with Dewey’s Library Hand handwriting style, I stumbled across this font created in collaboration between Nathan Hauenstein and Anna Craycroft that transforms Anna’s library hand writing into a digital font. (via UOIEA)
Another handwritten card in the card catalog at the Multnomah County Public Library in 2005. (by Lost Dutchman)
This is one samples from a selection of old handwritten library cards done is variations of Melvil Dewey’s “library hand” which I am now completely smitten with. (via Penn History)
French Ruled Paper
I think French Séyès paper, the standard lined paper used by French students, is the perfect practice paper for improving penmanship. Gridded both vertically and horizontally and providing four narrow rules between each grid block provides space for ascenders, descenders and uppercase letterforms. An assortment of sizes and formats of French-ruled notebooks from Clairefontaine are…
Dewey Library Hand
Its no secret that in my other reality, I would have been a librarian. My love of books and ephemera knows no bounds so while I’ve been searching for handwriting techniques, its no surprise that I discovered Melvil Dewey’s Library Hand which has become my favorite style and the one to which I will aspire.…