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  Yeah, I remember the days when everyone wrote in Times New Roman… >
  
  Calligraphy. It's still a thing. A friend of mine has a very good side-job using Calligraphy to make signs, invitations,   logos... Watching her write anything is amazing. >
  
  I practice cursive daily.  I have about five different fonts personally, and they get more and more practiced/elaborate each year...  I have a blocky sharp cornered script with jagged fast movements, a flowly loose curlicues and paisley looking thing with stylized donuts for the i-dots, a old-english style with large capitals, and my fast scribble cursive that is probably unintelligible to anyone but me, and then i have my "bank" scrawl for financial documents. 
  In another 20 years, what I do today will be a lost generational art.  Im looking forward to it. >
  
  I think we need to see this >
  
  Hm.  Ok, let me ponder. >
  
  Only the most talented calligraphers can truly capture the essence of comic sans.
  Only the most disturbed dare attempt papyrus. >
  
  Not at all. Fonts have many classifications. Only 'script' and 'gothic' literally derive from handwriting. Most serif roman fonts derive from stone carving and were later optimised for letterpress. Sans-serif fonts have very little to do with all those except the core shape. The famous Dutch font designer Gerard Unger had a terrible handwriting. >
  
  For architecture classes I had to learn times new Roman, it was a pain in the ass.