A rough draft. A really rough draft.
I Want a nice gold frame. Ay frens with arteestique things to share?
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That is not only a personally dismissive and insulting comment, but ignorant to boot. Of course I know that letters are connected in cursive and separated in block printing, since I have studied cursive and calligraphy in English, German, Russian, and Chinese. However, we are talking about the legibility of fonts on a poster. Go to any font site and see what they call a cursive font. The loops I mentioned are not essential to the cursive nature of this handwriting font.
The loops and connections are necessary for it to be cursive. It is meant to be written by hand quickly. I don't care what a "font site" calls it. The fonts on the poster were perfectly legible.
The loops actually were essential when I was in school learning to write in cursive in 3rd grade. And I still write in the manner I was taught.
The poster is legible, the discussion was about how to make it more impact full, and I was suggesting a cursive font that was simpler to look at in a full page.
It wouldn't be "cursive" then. It must have the loops and connections to be cursive, rather than printed letters.
It's the connections that are essential to all cursive styles. Other languages based on different characters don't have loops, for instance Chinese or ancient Egyptian (called demotic script). Those languages look like paint drips, not like letters at all. English letters have round parts and they can be exaggerated to loops. There are many styles of cursive and they are all "correct" if you can read them, the differences are a matter of fashion. Look up an old English cursive STYLE called Spencerian: this was the style that was standard in the 19th century. It was much fancier than the common styles taught since the early 20th century. In the older writing it was considered very artistic to make "flourishes" which are very loopy, out of the low parts like the lower part of "p," and out of capital letters like S or G that have big round parts, and "swashes" which are extra long cross marks, like the top of capital T and F. Nowadays this is a special art called calligraphy. People don't even learn regular cursive in many schools. Good for you that you know cursive at all. Perhaps if I had said "knots" instead of "loops" it would have been more clear what I meant. Look at the page as a whole, a little out of focus, so you see the words as blocks. Some of the letters have a tight little circle at the top, much smaller and tighter than handwriting. If you start noticing that detail it becomes distracting. My suggestion was to find a style that was simpler, so the details of the letters would not distract from quick reading.
No, I think you are correct. I very much enjoyed your answer, and agree, "you can't read cursive" is a little insulting.