Homeless handwriting inspires fancy new fonts A project that turns handwritten letters seen on homeless signs into fonts gets a big boost from global typeface provider Monotype.

Palmer had moved to Cedar Rapids from New Hampshire in 1879 and worked as an engrosser, which means he produced official documents like insurance policies and deeds using very fancy handwriting.

While email has certainly made it much quicker and easier to keep in touch with people, there's still something really nice about receiving a tangible hand-written letter. That's why the Bond ...

Learning this useful skill demanded self-mastery. But by the later 19th-century fancy handwriting gave way to fluent, simpler, less artful but more practical connected scripts.

If it were up to the editorial team at Bloomberg, cursive, the loopy, fancy handwriting that no one actually uses anymore, would be taken down to the riverbed, shot, and killed with fire. For ...

Republicans, howling over President Obama's curtailment of White House tours, have some personnel-management advice when it comes to fancy handwriting experts ...

On a scale from 1 to Repealing Obamacare, making sure schoolchildren continue to learn fancy handwriting may not take top priority, but there it was last week listed on the front page of the New ...

Learning this useful skill demanded self-mastery. But by the later 19 th century fancy handwriting gave way to fluent, simpler, less artful but more practical connected scripts.