January 15, 2011
We live in a world that prefers we PRINT everything. Plain printing is “Basic Italic.” If you take the plain printing and connect the letters, you will have “Cursive Italic.” To add some flare, pick up an edged pen, marker, fountain pen or an artist’s nib and your cursive italic will become “Edged-Pen Italic” or “Calligraphy” (which comes from the Greek for beautiful writing). Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting