How to Improve Your Handwriting

Today, I'm going to be writing about how to improve your handwriting - specifically how to make your handwriting easier to read. Changing your handwriting before the aesthetic might look nice, but I find that it makes me write slower so if you're aiming for more legible handwriting... instead of drastically changing the way it looks, this article is for you.

My first tip is to write larger. Aim for your letters to be at least half the height of the line, because the bigger your writing is - the easier it'll be to see all of the little lines and loops that make up the letters.

If you're writing fairly large, but it's still hard to read - use a pen with a finer tip. This will make each stroke clearer and it'll be easier to tell what letter the strokes form. The smoothness of the paper and pen you use also affect your handwriting. Smooth paper and pens allow you to write faster, but also cause more of those streaky trailing lines. If your handwriting has those streaky trails, use pens on paper that are more grippy. Regular printer paper or binder paper works well since it's fairly rough, and you can also try paper that's specifically made to be grippy - like the Kikuyu Campus Shikari Paper. For pens - ballpoint and felt-tip pens are grippier than gel pens, and roller ball pens are the least grippy. Besides supplies, here are a few small tweaks you can make into your handwriting to improve legibility.

Number One - remove loops.
Number Two - make the round parts of letters larger.
Number Three - make ascenders or descenders smaller so that they don't intersect with the next line. Number Four - write in print instead of cursive.
Number Five - use the same letter forms throughout. And,
Number Six - close all of the loops.