Death of Cursive: The Evolution of Penmanship and the Rise of the Typed Script

By: Scaglia, Beatriz

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Once almost a virtue of learned society, penmanship continues to be reduced to signatures and post-it notes. Furthermore, the advent of the computer, fonts, and italic script have rendered cursive writing practically obsolete.

This book explores and celebrates penmanship, writing, cursive, and calligraphy while recognizing machine fonts and their consistency. Also included are histories of the various alphabets.

Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1241566666
• ISBN13: 9781241566661
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Webster's Digital Services
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.7"