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50 Times People Found Some Truly Perfect Handwriting Examples That Were Too Good Not To Share
One of the biggest casualties of the digital age has been the fine skill of handwriting, and the opportunities to show off one's artsy and satisfyingly precise script are diminishing every day. When was the last time you picked up a pen?
While calligraphy continues to flourish in the forms of wedding and event invitations, fontand typography design, having perfect handwriting doesn't really get you that much social cred anymore. Luckily, for those who are blessed with natural talent or have worked hard on their penmanship, there are places on the internet where you are still appreciated! The subreddit penmanshipporn has long been such a place, where scribes come together to share and celebrate the aesthetic value of their beautiful handwriting.
Following on from a previous post, we here at Bored Panda have compiled a list of satisfyingly neat and creative handwriting examples for your viewing pleasure. Scroll down below to check them out for yourself, and let us know which hand lettering you've found the most aesthetically pleasing!
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8th Grade Nepali Student
Perfection. Man, I wish my handwriting was this good in 8th grade!
My Grandma Makes A Calendar Every Year, All By Hand
Philippine Professor's Insane Handwriting
How does he keep it so straight?? If that was me, it would look like a land slide!
I Write Sheet Music By Hand Using Charcoal - This Is My Latest: Canon In D By Pachelbel
Some Of My Handwritten Anatomy Notes
Anatomy notes... going for an MD? Your handwriting will never pass the "doctor's prescription" exam. lol (Congrats if you are going for your MD, BTW!) :)
The “Doctors Prescription exam”... that’s hilarious!!
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Who cares about handwriting...look at those skull drawings...they're amazing!
Oh that's really nice! A doctor's handwriting that everyone can read :)
I saw this and immediately thought this was a text book page. I was looking for the handwritten notes!
WOW my anatomy notes never could have looked like this even if I had tried my best to make them. I was sometimes lucky if I could read them.
I'll bet you aced the test over this stuff! Making this type of detailed notes reinforces the info in your brain.
This looks like old anatomy books from a few centuries ago, specialy the drawings. Awesome.
I had a roommate whose handwriting was very similar. She was also entering the medical profession.
You're going to be a good doctor if you add empathy you'll be one of the greatest!!
I can barely read my notes, how do you do this and keep up with the lecture?
Keep two notebooks: one to write notes down in class and the other to copy those notes at a later time. That way it not only makes them more organized and easier to read, this also helps you understand and memorize the notes you took down
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Wow! If this person is studying to be a doctor then please be a surgeon!!!
Practising Some Copperplate - Pablo Neruda's Soneto Vxii
José Naranja And His Travel Books
Not The Most Elaborate Font But I Found This Really Satisfying (Bristol, Uk)
How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck If A Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood?
This Is How I Maximize Space In My Cheat Sheets
My Late Gandfather's Handwriting
Perfect Handwriting
So Uniform
My Handwriting
To make beautiful handwriting often requires a great ink pen also. You can tell a lot of these were written with nib pens.
My Friend's Philosophy Notes
Found In Public Restroom In Berkeley
Once, whilst travelling in Italy and visiting countless wonders of art and architecture, I got sick and tired of the appalling graffiti in all the toilets (I was hosteling and camping) so I drew a large, detailed image of a statue from the Trevi fountain holding a bottle of Smirnoff vodka and wrote 'Inter Rail and Smirnoff leave me breathless'. It would have washed off had anyone ever bothered, but I just thought the city deserved a better class of vandalism :-)
The Handwriting At The Diner By My House
Some Orgo Lab Notes
Not Sure If This Belongs Here, But I Think I Just Drew The Perfect Tick
Only Allowed A Single Page Formula Sheet? Challenge Accepted
Handwritten Menu At Mockingbird Lounge
My question is, do they eyeball the spacing or hold up a ruler to make each line even with the last?
My Friend's Beautiful Bio Notes
My Late Grandfather’s Printing
Hahaha this handwriting is beautiful but i also LOVE the list, your grandfather must have had a great sense of humor!
By Order Of The Peaky Fockin' Blinders
Enjoying Writing Again After Recovering From A Sprained Wrist
An A2 Poster I Made For Biology
Your writing is beautiful, but i dont think anyone is going to sit there and read all of that.
More Fancy Cursive With Bic Ballpoint Pen
This Is The Homework Of An 8-Year-Old Vietnamese Girl Whose Family I Stayed With In Hanoi. She Got A 10/10
Arabic Words, Chinese Style
My Friend’s Social Notes
All these school notes make me realize how much I loved, loved university!!! :-)
Perfect Handwriting
This Receipt From A Hardware Shop
This Majestic 2 Slipped Out While Studying
Powerwasher Penmanship
This Entire Document, Happy Independence Day
A Letter My Great-Great-Grandfather Wrote
That Friend Who Spends Too Long On Their Notes
My first page on every blank note book at the beginning of the year looked like this! the end of the notebook, don't ask....
I Work For The University Of Oxford, And This Hangs In My Office. One Of The Last Pieces Of Legislation The Present Dalai Lama Passed Before Fleeing Tibet
Found My New Favorite Pen
I Quite Liked How This Word Turned Out During Practice This Evening
A Friend Brought Us Dinner Tonight. This Was On The Bag, All Written By Hand
Could Not Have Been More Pleased By This Treble Clef
"A Time To..."
Just For Fun, Minimum. Inspired By Greek Architecture
Its not handwriting but its so satisfying! How did you find a pen or marker like that?
Lyrics From My Fav Band
I’ve Been Told My Writing Is Like A Font
My Note To An Awesome Professor
Beginning Of The Semester Notes Are Always In Tip Top Shape
And get progressively worse as school goes on. That was the case for me, anyway hah.
I’m Obsessed With These Beautiful Things Of Handwriting
Note: this post originally had 271 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
The examples of formal calligraphy are gorgeous, of course, but I prefer/upvote the ones that seem to be just really extraordinary handwriting by regular folks.
Wow I wish I could write like some of theses, I wrote my z's backwards until last year.
The ones of elderly and foreigners I'm not surprised about. My mother (ukrainian immigrant) did elementary under strict handwriting rules. Marks would be taken off if your name was more than a centimeter tall. Neatness was necessary not to fail. And yet...my handwriting is...and I quote, "chicken scratches"
Awesome and something to aspire too. Typing so much my handwriting looks godawful now.
This is probably one of the top ten most satisfying posts on Bored Panda. And, guys, don't worry if you've got messy handwriting. Apparently, you've got ideas that you want to get out quickly.
I was originally a lefty, but I was made to write with my right hand and my writing is chicken scratch to this day! I wonder if any of these fine writers are left handed?
Check out John DeCollibus on YouTube. Or hell, read about the penman J. C. Ryan. He did amazing things without hands.
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Back when the things we had to occupy us, not to mention many were expected of us, were quite different, such as reading, quilting, cross stitch, "practicing your letters" was one of them.
I really want to share my friends' handwriting. It's so neat and beautiful!
I had to quit after two pages. My hand was cramping just looking at them.
All handwritten but not all are handwriting. Calligraphy is different from handwriting ^^
The thing is, how long did it take to write so neatly? I can write pretty well but it will take me twice as long to finish a sentence.
Nice work you fine calligraphers out there, but for some of us this is a far more difficult art than others. So to say that a difficult handwriting assessment ought to be mandatory in schools is unreasonable given how relevant having pretty handwriting is in the modern world. The requirement should simply be legibility, not that you become one of these Picassos of the pen. We don't require short kids to become killers at basketball and football in school. We don't require big people to prove themselves as able jockeys. Don't make those of us who's penmanship is legible but slatternly force our words to meet the lofty aesthetic glory of these soaring scribes.
I wonder how long it took for these. Especially the school notes. My handwriting is awful but it's because i have to write notes quickly to keep up with the teacher
My question on some of these is, do they write like this on a regular basis? And if so, can they do it effortlessly or do they need to take a long time?
I'm going to buy a pen and watch YouTube videos on handwriting right now.
when i write a sentence it normally would look like this : IMG_201805...ba5ccd.jpg 
This is what my handwriting looks like these days. IMAG0426-5...65ebf8.jpg 
The examples of formal calligraphy are gorgeous, of course, but I prefer/upvote the ones that seem to be just really extraordinary handwriting by regular folks.
Wow I wish I could write like some of theses, I wrote my z's backwards until last year.
The ones of elderly and foreigners I'm not surprised about. My mother (ukrainian immigrant) did elementary under strict handwriting rules. Marks would be taken off if your name was more than a centimeter tall. Neatness was necessary not to fail. And yet...my handwriting is...and I quote, "chicken scratches"
Awesome and something to aspire too. Typing so much my handwriting looks godawful now.
This is probably one of the top ten most satisfying posts on Bored Panda. And, guys, don't worry if you've got messy handwriting. Apparently, you've got ideas that you want to get out quickly.
I was originally a lefty, but I was made to write with my right hand and my writing is chicken scratch to this day! I wonder if any of these fine writers are left handed?
Check out John DeCollibus on YouTube. Or hell, read about the penman J. C. Ryan. He did amazing things without hands.
Load More Replies... Back when the things we had to occupy us, not to mention many were expected of us, were quite different, such as reading, quilting, cross stitch, "practicing your letters" was one of them.
I really want to share my friends' handwriting. It's so neat and beautiful!
I had to quit after two pages. My hand was cramping just looking at them.
All handwritten but not all are handwriting. Calligraphy is different from handwriting ^^
The thing is, how long did it take to write so neatly? I can write pretty well but it will take me twice as long to finish a sentence.
Nice work you fine calligraphers out there, but for some of us this is a far more difficult art than others. So to say that a difficult handwriting assessment ought to be mandatory in schools is unreasonable given how relevant having pretty handwriting is in the modern world. The requirement should simply be legibility, not that you become one of these Picassos of the pen. We don't require short kids to become killers at basketball and football in school. We don't require big people to prove themselves as able jockeys. Don't make those of us who's penmanship is legible but slatternly force our words to meet the lofty aesthetic glory of these soaring scribes.
I wonder how long it took for these. Especially the school notes. My handwriting is awful but it's because i have to write notes quickly to keep up with the teacher
My question on some of these is, do they write like this on a regular basis? And if so, can they do it effortlessly or do they need to take a long time?
I'm going to buy a pen and watch YouTube videos on handwriting right now.
when i write a sentence it normally would look like this : IMG_201805...ba5ccd.jpg
This is what my handwriting looks like these days. IMAG0426-5...65ebf8.jpg
