Lots of cursive proponents cite cognitive and learning benefits to cursive writing.
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Fourth-graders will be expected to "write legibly in cursive to complete assignments," and cursive will also be a requirement for fifth-graders.
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But advocates maintain that cursive teaches broader motor skills, and that students must be able to read original documents that were printed in cursive.
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In 2006, when the SAT began requiring students to write essays, 15 percent of students used cursive — although the students who used cursive got slightly higher scores.
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I promptly found a listicle detailing six reasons we should teach cursive, and I'll admit one of them—that cursive might help kids with dyslexia—made sense.
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I couldn't find anyone in the VICE office who would argue a pro-cursive position, so I searched "why is cursive important" on Google to try and find a counterargument.
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In April, when the Louisiana State Senate voted to put cursive back into the public school curriculum, senators yelled "America!" in celebration, as though learning cursive were a patriotic act.
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IDEO software designer Kevin Ho built the map using a machine learning algorithm that can sort fonts by visual characteristics, like weight, serif or san-serif, and cursive or non-cursive.
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A handwriting scholar doesn't think cursive is an essential modern skill Today, debates in favor of cursive take the form of "tradition strangely grafted onto patriotism," she said, nothing that some legislators complained that if students didn't learn how to write in cursive, then they wouldn't be able to read the Declaration of Independence.
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Finally, current cursive advocates often argue that students who don't learn cursive won't be able to read it — "they won't be able to read the Declaration of Independence" — but that is misleading.
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How long has it been since you wrote in cursive?
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Cursive tattoos are having a moment with models right now.
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"Happy graduation Debbie," read the card written in cursive handwriting.
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And he will be perfecting his writing, including learning cursive.
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The slow death of cursive is just the latest version.
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You said that you're proud of all the Cursive records.
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Albums by the Shins, Cursive, the White Stripes, the Strokes.
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It allowed me to walk inside my wife's cursive name.
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The river winds between hills like a lazy cursive signature.
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Other reasons for making kids learn cursive are also garbage.
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Is it because it is in a classic cursive font?
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Some also argue that learning cursive teaches fine motor skills.
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Those of us who remained sinistral — a loaded term — and struggled with cursive handwriting in school, having to twist our cramped hands one way or another to write imperfectly, know that cursive is intrinsically discriminatory.
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I don&apost care whether it was long hand or cursive.
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The Common Core doesn't require students to learn to write cursive.
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Here's hoping my cursive can break the algorithm (it probably won't).
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W: Walgreen's often uses a simple cursive "W" for its logo.
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P.S. Please don't tell my daughter I used a "cursive" word.
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Plus, as we all learned in third grade, cursive is fancy.
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We talk endlessly about the catalog and the legacy of Cursive.
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It's a Cursive record, so it's gonna be dark and moody.
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Polemicists lament that cursive is going the way of the dodo.
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As evidence, she listed large classes, no cursive, poor test scores.
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Glowing descriptions appear, the cursive unfolding, after a page is tapped.
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Kathleen Wright, who worked for Zaner-Bloser, a company that publishes cursive workbooks and sponsored the national competition, said 24 states now required some form of cursive instruction, including seven that had adopted policies since 2013.
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Another common concern is security: kids who don't learn cursive won't even be able to do a half-cursive, half-printed signature like most people do today, and some experts say printed signatures are easier to forge.
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Cursive is again becoming widespread across the South Data compiled by the Southern Regional Education Board in 2016 showed that 14 of the 16 states the SREB oversees expect that cursive instruction begin by the third grade.
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Officials tossed five ballots because the voter wrote their name in cursive.
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D: Disney's cursive typeface is one of the most recognizable on Earth.
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She sells coffee mugs that say "Gun Snob" in bouncy gold cursive.
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I like drawing and imitating my parent's cursive with endless crayon squiggles.
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Some envelopes are written in elegant cursive, others in barely legible scrawl.
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So if you're younger and can't write in attractive cursive, no problem.
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Many American schools have adjusted, with cursive lessons steadily declining for decades.
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As times have changed, so has the cursive that is being taught.
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For most of American history, cursive was supposed to do the opposite.
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The cursive at the bottom leaves a lot to be desired, though.
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Her signature, prominently scrawled in black cursive letters, appears throughout these works.
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Bathroom hand towels are adorned with gold Cs and Ls, in cursive.
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A cursive signature is more difficult to forge than a printed one.
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Is cursive an important "life skill," as Angela McKnight, an assemblywoman, believes?
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Under the new updates, students in schools across Texas will be required to begin learning how to write cursive letters in the second grade and must be able to write in cursive by the end of fifth grade.
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As teachers devote more and more time to preparing students for standardized tests, the amount of wiggle room in the curriculum for cursive will probably decrease — just as simpler handwriting styles replaced the elaborate cursive of the 19th century.
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DeEtta Culbertson, a spokeswoman for the Texas Education Agency, told CNN that previous education standards released in Texas, including in 2009, have included cursive writing, but the new standards set to go into effect added "more emphasis" on cursive.
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In the history of handwriting, we're in a unique place in which most Americans alive learned cursive writing, and efforts to re-instill cursive in a new generation of youth represented a new "reaction" to ongoing change, she said.
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"Part of being an American is being able to read cursive writing," Sen.
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I wasn't thinking about what direction Cursive had to go in this time.
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He tattooed her name in cursive on his arm that reads, "Kaia XXIII."
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Cursive also put forth their masterpiece, The Ugly Organ, on the same day.
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Ohio and Alabama, two states that mandate cursive, are not on that list.
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A wooden sign over the door read, "Saint Mary's" in faded, cursive letters.
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But there seems to be no difference in benefits between printing and cursive.
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Cursive was also politicized during the Cold War, becoming a display of patriotism.
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On the inside cover, in a mother's careful cursive, was written: Tony, 1973.
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Students, read the entire article, then tell us: Should all schools teach cursive?
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Schools now tend to favor more stripped-down forms of cursive, like New American Cursive, that do away with the loops and swirls that other generations may have learned, said Sheila Lowe, the president of the American Handwriting Analysis Foundation.
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"Documents that are fundamental to our nation's history and laws, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, were drafted in cursive," reads a bill introduced in New Jersey this year to make cursive writing mandatory in the state curriculum.
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I filled out an RSVP to my cousin's wedding in 100% cursive last week.
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Students never learned to write in print; they started writing cursive from the beginning.
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"It's your birthday," he wrote in cursive font, adding heart emoji to his photo.
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But when we saw these cursive flower letters from design site Oh Happy Day!
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The cursive letting apparently spells out her middle name, Jordan, according to Page Six.
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Yet even through all their evolution and success, Cursive never made readily accessible music.
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It requires schools to provide cursive instruction by the end of the third grade.
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Apparently not: Legislatures around the country are now debating the future of cursive penmanship.
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If printing letters remains a useful if rarely used skill, cursive has been superannuated.
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The year 2010 was a "pivotal year" for the cursive comeback, the SREB says.
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But the nuns taught us generosity and introspection as directly as fractions and cursive.
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It's fine to teach students to read cursive, but writing it should be optional.
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If you don't write in cursive, is this a skill you wish you had?
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Public-school students will begin learning cursive letters in the second grade, and by the following year will be expected to "write complete words, thoughts, and answers legibly in cursive writing leaving appropriate spaces between words," according to the updated Texas Education Code.
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The delicate cursive writing reportedly spells out her middle name, Jordan, according to Page Six.
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A matcha latte, a pink MacBook Air, the word "tuberculosis" scrolled in gel pen cursive.
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Methodology Cursive was taught differently over the decades, so there is no one authoritative version.
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The Kansas Board of Education reaffirmed in 2013 that students should learn to write cursive.
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When Chad isn't playing the villain in an 80s movie, he's busy perfecting his cursive.
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Grande debuted the cursive tattoo tribute to her former fiancé at the end of June.
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The grown-ish star even wore a black hat emblazoned with "Kardashian" in gold cursive.
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Speaking of pencils, some schools no longer require or teach cursive writing in their classrooms.
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"I know this is the first holiday without your baby," the neat cursive handwriting read.
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It was still being written, at times in cursive, on the night of the vote.
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"Like, Cursive had The Ugly Organ, and Bright Eyes had Lifted," he recently told me.
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Experts say kids can learn to read cursive without writing it, in about an hour.
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But the artifacts are dwarfed by thousands of note cards covered in minuscule cursive handwriting.
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That's like having children today write cursive or learn how to spell: Why should they?
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The card said "Baby Daddy" in pink cursive script and featured a black couple kissing.
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Also: Let injured veterans sue for malpractice; fertility preservation treatments; the joy of cursive writing.
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A New Jersey lawmaker introduced a bill requiring students to learn cursive by third grade.
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Ask last year's national cursive champ, Edbert Aquino, a 10-year-old from New Jersey.
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Add cursive writing where you think it belongs, if you would add it at all.
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"I think your cursive writing identifies you as much as your physical features do," Dickie Drake, a Republican state representative in Alabama who introduced a bill requiring schools to provide cursive instruction by the end of third grade, told The New York Times in 2016.
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"It's your birthday," he wrote in a cursive font, adding a heart emoji to his photo.
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If you want to check their work, though, please use these cursive worksheets as your guide.
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Kate wrote, "Does this feel like paper?!" showing off her loopy cursive, and drew a tree.
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Ahead, check out our favorite iterations of the most popular tattoo fonts, like typewriter and cursive.
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She also carried a black clutch with her name written in silver, sparkly cursive on it.
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A bill in the Washington state legislature would require students in the state to learn cursive.
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It's really impressive when it works, but can sometimes be a miss (like for recognizing cursive).
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Before he begins ranking the albums in the Cursive discography, Tim Kasher offers a few prefaces.
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Its cursive letter and cream-colored stationary perfectly compliment the 51-year-old Countess' sophisticated style.
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Laverne was known for a cursive "L" monogrammed on her shirts and guzzling milk and Pepsi.
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Important to note, she was only a first grader ... so don't expect some fancy cursive signature.
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Write it in cursive over a picture of Thad Young and stick it on your refrigerator.
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Unless you're tattooing "grace" above Justin Bieber's eyebrow, cursive is not an essential skill these days.
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Lots of students who were taught cursive in grade school grow up and completely forget it.
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It was inscribed, in cursive, with a poem titled "Money," by the American writer Richard Armour.
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Last year, elementary schools in Illinois were required to offer at least one class on cursive.
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On the inside cover of my childhood favorites I see my name written in looping cursive.
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Her writings to Mr. Flynt often ran a dozen pages in a slanted, if sloppy, cursive.
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Eschewing computers, he wrote patients letters in elegant cursive with his treasured Mont Blanc fountain pen.
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She couldn't physicalize sarcasm and shock with as much cursive and calculus as the other five.
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Do you think that a hundred years from now, students will still be writing in cursive?
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"Where shall we make love?" one of the first tiles asks, in Saint Phalle's loopy cursive.
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On paper its dizzying suggestions include calligraphy, figure and abstraction; natural growth, runaway cursive and mapping.
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Article of the Day Before reading the article: Do you know how to write in cursive?
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From "Tell Me a Secret" from A Bloom in Cursive by Leandra VaneJake kissed like he sang.
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I mean, just look at the outline of the Apple logo and cursive tagline in the invite.
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Written in black cursive script, the tattoo is more than just a skin-deep show of support.
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His came in cream-colored envelopes, the words in fine blue cursive, the paper thick and sturdy.
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A "C" for "Catherine," Kate's full name, sits atop a black "W," both letters in intricate cursive.
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In 2009, when the Common Core Curriculum was first developed, cursive instruction was written out, notes Lowe.
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In the six years since Cursive released I Am Gemini, frontman Tim Kasher has kept plenty busy.
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It's fitting how Vitriola finds a way to sound like an early Cursive record without sounding predictable.
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And while that makes sense, it's not like the old Cursive records have been super positive either.
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I'm certainly quite sensitive about excess solipsism with what I write, especially when it comes to Cursive.
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On one side, Buddy's name was written in cursive as the dog was pictured with angel wings.
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The overbearing dispiritedness almost made Cursive a tough sell outside of a niche market: the emo elites.
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The Indiana state Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would require schools to teach cursive writing.
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Instead of going on a crusade for cursive, I propose that we make other essential skills mandatory.
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As for more recent stuff Cursive is always good and always surprising me with what they do.
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In 2014, Florida added cursive writing to its learning requirements for the third, fourth and fifth grades.
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The SREB showed the number of cursive-teaching states dropping from 12 down to six that year.
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"I don't think children should be required to learn cursive if they don't want to," Trubek said.
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Cursive script, pastel headers, vaguely encouraging phrases like "she designed a life she loved" ... not for me!
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She wants students to "become proficient" in reading and writing cursive by the end of third grade.
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Post-its are pinned to each folded fabric piece with planned measurements written in Heft's neat cursive handwriting.
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Handwriting experts say that cursive writing doesn't flow as naturally with ballpoint pens, since they require more pressure.
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An attendant snips my wristband and presses a big cursive "Spectacles" stamp to the back of my hand.
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I kept glancing down at his cursive numbers as I scanned street addresses in search of the building.
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She won the award for her impressive cursive-writing skills, which the 10 year old said wasn't easy.
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But the real reason cursive is fading is that the arguments in favor of it are pretty weak.
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From "Tell Me a Secret" from A Bloom in Cursive by Leandra Vane Jake kissed like he sang.
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The passionate note, which is handwritten (in cursive!), professes devotion for the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star.
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Once upon a time, children learned how to write in cursive as part of handwriting lessons in school.
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But like a chef with a secret ingredient, resisting the urge to overuse it proved difficult for Cursive.
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It mirrors Harry's cipher, a thin, cursive "H" topped by a similar crown, representing the House of Windsor.
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The decreasing use of cursive has led critics to say that the instructional time is better spent elsewhere.
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The Carolinas, Massachusetts, California, Florida, and Georgia all have mandates that require schools to teach cursive as well.
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That reasoning makes no sense, and it wouldn't make more sense if it were written out in cursive.
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But all of these studies are showing the benefits of writing by hand, not of handwriting, or cursive.
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Across the front of one of my dad's baseballs is neat cursive looping into the name Satchel Paige.
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"Part of being an American is being able to read cursive writing," Ms. Roach told King 5 News.
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Gayna Scott, a leader of the campaign, said cursive was a surprisingly charged topic, both emotionally and politically.
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Texas is the latest state in which educators are pushing to bring back cursive writing in elementary schools.
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Common Core standards removed cursive as a requirement in 2010, prompting many schools to exclude it from curriculums.
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Tawney often accented her collages with cursive phrases, as much for their undulating lines as their poetic content.
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Thought it was required for the rest of school and got in the habit of only writing in cursive.
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That's how she ended up providing cursive for the envelopes of Paula Patton and Robin Thicke's 2005 wedding. 11.
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They were then rewarded with a platter of desserts, complete with an iced 'Congratulations' written in looping chocolate cursive.
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He got the word "Katelyn" inked in cursive with the bottom of the "y" turning into an infinity symbol.
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One consequence is that employers hiring new staff are prizing the ability to write speedily and legibly in cursive.
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All do well topped simply and classically with snips of dill and chives and sour cream in rough cursive.
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She told ABC News that she loves creating art, and that she views cursive writing as an art form.
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They have rescued, for the internet, Meroitic cursive, Canadian syllabics, the Lydian scripts, and those most esoteric creatures, emoji.
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Her penmanship started off as bold, capital letters, but by the end, it petered out into tight, itchy cursive.
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The cursive script of the invitation set a Halloween-esque mood, as did the charred background of the paper.
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Blue cursive ink on its interior indicated it was built by a Parisian luthier named Joseph Bassot in 1802.
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"People were upset about the idea that you might not seem educated if you didn't know cursive," she said.
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When a classmate lost his father, the cursive font on the card I picked out felt laughable, even vulgar.
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The lettering of his speech is heavy and in cursive — a sign of the florid dominance of his personality.
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At the upper left of each envelope she would write out her name, Marjorie L. Straus, in classic cursive.
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Even in the days of texting, some research shows cursive still can improve cognitive development, spelling and writing speed.
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The menu is still written in her handwriting, thanks to technology that made a font out of her cursive.
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The title sentence, jotted in neatly slanting cursive, is repeated 17 times, filling the page from top to bottom.
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In New Orleans, the Mississippi winds like a cursive word that has just been pulled too straight to decipher.
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Or what about the problem with mail-in ballots that require a signature when young people don't know cursive?
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When you write with a pen or pencil, do you print, write in cursive or alternate between the two?
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The head is studded with 17 eyes, and the titular phrase is written in cursive from shoulder to shoulder.
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It starts when a neighbor's card appears by my door: "Happy 1396, we are with you," it says in cursive.
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Writing in cursive, where the letters are all connected, results in long strokes with the stylus only occasionally being lifted.
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The former couple once famously shared the phrase "Mille Tendresse" in tiny cursive letters on the backs of their necks.
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State legislatures across the country are springing to the defense of a skill that most adults rarely use: cursive handwriting.
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"Everybody writes cursive differently from others and that's how they detect problems," Mark Brassfield shared in an interview with KSLA.
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Robe on and towel wrapped atop her head, she signs a cursive 'VB' across her mirror using a plum lipstick.
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The couple decided on the phrase "Rest in the storm" which they both got inked in cursive on their forearms.
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That is why, prior to the introduction of the ballpoint, cursive italic script had not changed much since Renaissance times.
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The technology can handle free-hand sketches, mathematical equations, chemical structures and musical notation just as readily as cursive handwriting.
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Wide-ruled pages offer plenty of space to take notes, create lab reports, and learn how to write in cursive.
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"We will lose something as we print and write in cursive less and less, but loss is inevitable," Trubek concludes.
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Beneath an illustration of a cross and hands in prayer, the words "Jesus is my life" were written in cursive.
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Yet many lawmakers, parents, and educators are wringing their hands over the loss of another form of communication: cursive handwriting.
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The primary decoration was Ms. Del Rey's last name, written in ice-blue cursive neon, looming ominously over the stage.
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Three years later, the logo was changed to a cursive stenciling of the word "Braves," which sat above a tomahawk.
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Do you agree with Edbert Aquino that writing in cursive allows "ideas to flow more freely" and helps with creativity?
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For these reasons, the arguments go, kids come up with more ideas when they&aposre writing in cursive versus typing.
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The close-up photo shows the word "lover" scribed on her neck in cursive font right below a cross tattoo.
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It's true that Jobs' cursive is pretty decent, but it's also interesting that he doesn't use capital letters or proper punctuation.
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It's common these days to hear complaints that texting, typing, or Common Core are killing off kids' ability to write cursive.
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Reese Witherspoon's Draper James provides a preppy J.Crew aesthetic for those inclined toward Etsy cursive and sweet tea in mason jars.
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With a neatly written cursive sample, Sara Hinesley earned the Nicholas Maxim Award in the 2019 Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest.
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"To My Supporter's: I want Every Forensic Test Possible Done B/c I am Innocent," Avery's neat cursive reads. https://twitter.
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Woo also revealed what seems to be a brand new tattoo of the word "baby" written in cursive on her neck.
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He and his Cursive bandmates also launched a record label, 15 Passenger Records, and re-released the band's first two albums.
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Records. Their evolved sound on the debut full-length saw Cursive take steps to find a deeper dynamic within their music.
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But some states are choosing to hold the line, passing laws to make sure cursive doesn't become a totally lost skill.
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"For Mom," Chu Mui said one time, tapping the tattoo on his bicep that said, in a loopy cursive, "nho" — remember.
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"After today you will be far from Hanoi," it said, in the same loopy cursive as the tattoo on his arm.
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Last month, a law went into effect in Ohio providing funding for materials to help students learn cursive by fifth grade.
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But requiring cursive is not a good use of time, she said, especially because schools and teachers face more urgent demands.
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When I visited Babbitt's music studio in Los Angeles, I noticed an unplugged neon sign: the name "Junebug" in cursive script.
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As you can see ... Danielle got the tatt done in black cursive, and it stretches across a good chunk of skin.
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What role do the Common Core standards seem to have had in the demise in students' learning to write in cursive?
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I grew up crafting; I think I learned how to write cursive in puff paint before I did it in pencil.
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And in November, celebrity tattoo artist JonBoy posted a photo of Gerber's wrist with "I know" scrawled in cursive across the side.
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Unlike the first — cursive writing that per Page Six spells out her middle name, Jordan — Kaia's second design is far more graphic.
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But is cursive like riding a bike or do we forget it instantly like virtually anything we learned in high school math?
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When doodling, sketching, or writing in cursive, there is no noticeable lag between your physical pen strokes and what appears on screen.
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The word "grace" is there, though, in elongated middle school cursive, so faint you might think it's not a tattoo at all.
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His own dancing is evidence of the body's ability to transcend earthly limits, and to convert one's spindliness into cursive kinetic energy.
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Their official joint cypher features an intertwined, "H" and "M" in the same cursive style as both Harry and Meghan's individual cyphers.
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But leaving Cursive, and then coming back and starting it again with Domestica, that was when I was the most gung-ho.
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"We need to stick with the basics of teaching phonics, cursive writing, English grammar and multiplication tables," she said in an interview.
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A bill that was introduced to the state senate would require all students enrolled in Washington grade schools to write in cursive.
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Typing was one of those things almost everyone learned in school — along with cursive and the names of all the state capitals.
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Most recently, Zayn Malik stepped out with a "Love" scrawled in cursive across his right hand, seemingly the work of JonBoy, too.
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Shortly after their breakup, Kasher, bassist Matt Maginn, and guitarist Steve Pedersen reformed as Cursive, with the addition of drummer Clint Schnase.
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After two EP releases in a straightforward post-punk style, Cursive released Such Blinding Stars for Starving Eyes in 1997 on Crank!
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"We're not even teaching cursive in a lot of schools anymore but someone on the staff knew it to try," Durbin said.
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Except when you sign a check — if you even do that anymore — you may hardly use the loops and swirls of cursive.
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But while American public education has abandoned cursive, France surveyed the evidence and began teaching connected script even earlier, at age 6.
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It is adorned with pink flowers and balloons, a black-and-white portrait and a plastic stake with "Sister" in cursive lettering.
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Opponents of cursive instruction argue it is no longer relevant and classroom instruction is better devoted to other subjects, including digital proficiency.
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When you shake through the arguments, it becomes clear that the driving force keeping cursive alive is really just nostalgia and romanticism.
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As an art form, there's definitely a benefit to cursive writing, and many artists take up lettering or calligraphy as their craft.
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Reading that 18th-century document in the original is difficult for most people who know cursive, as the script is now unfamiliar.
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Lawmakers in Louisiana supported an even broader measure, in part, because Magna Carta and the United States Constitution were written in cursive.
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Each drawing is made up of a larger or smaller rectangular block of squiggly ink or pastel lines, which mimic cursive writing.
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Or they might observe that the loops of your cursive Ls are extra wide, which they could take to mean you're an extrovert.
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In the 1960s, the Palmer Method was later supplanted by two other forms of cursive — the Zaner-Bloser Method and the D'Nealian method.
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Her teacher taught her the art of cursive handwriting (so old school, we know!) and she discovered she had a knack for it.
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Kate's exquisite cursive style is seen in a photo by royals reporter Rebecca English shared on Twitter — which shows off her handwriting skills.
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Her other body art includes a red squiggle on the inside of her pinky finger and her grandmother Mary Jo's name in cursive.
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It was just last week that fans thought their relationship was doing just fine as Davidson debuted that cursive "A" on his neck.
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The newlyweds' official joint cypher features an intertwined "H" and "M" in the same cursive style as both Harry and Meghan's individual cyphers.
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This one: a tiny cursive "L" on the outside of her right ankle, as a tribute to her music legend father Lionel Richie.
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As is customary, Cursive vocalist-guitarist notes that he's proud of them all, and he feels somewhat bad putting something at the bottom.
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If you played it with the sound off, the words are probably seared smoking into the wall behind you in looping Yankees cursive.
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Her ex-boyfriend, Carlos, whose name is tattooed in cursive on her left wrist, is an MS-5033 member in prison for murder.
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The rapper and "Ridiculousness" star accessorized her bold look with a bedazzled belt and a hairpiece that spelled out "Chanel" in cursive font.
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Starting this fall, students in Texas will be required to know how to write legibly in cursive by the end of fifth grade.
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Effective cursive instruction can be woven into other subjects, with instructors dedicating 10 to 15 minutes per day on it, Ms. Lowe said.
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Again, Raymond's fly is yawning open; the neat script of his reproduced autograph on the card serves as a sort of cursive underline.
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The only time in my adult life I needed cursive was to sign the back of my credit card, and even that's unnecessary.
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Under the Common Core standards—the core curriculum for language and math adopted by 42 states—cursive writing is no longer a requirement.
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These Students Are Suing for Them How "Makers" Make the Classroom More Inclusive Cursive Seemed to Go the Way of Quills and Parchment.
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"Unbelievably, there were arguments that the fact that American kids couldn't do cursive made us vulnerable to the Russian menace," Dr. Thornton said.
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Its sinuous letters, connected to one another in cursive fashion and sometimes bearing dots and slashes above or below, resembled those of Arabic.
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Most schools, parochial or otherwise, no longer teach penmanship — and only about 10 states still retain cursive writing requirements in their curriculum guides.
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I was bummed because I thought it would be fun for the robot to follow the "Bucky" I&aposd spelled out in cursive.
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All our teachers were Jeans, and the Jeans loved the Karens of course, for their neat, sexy cursive and their indifference to pedagogy.
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Other ink drawings are entirely abstract, made up cursive forms that, like characters from an imagery alphabet, spin and tumble across a page.
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Still, there are what looks like boats visible in the gloaming, their bows, sterns, and sails curving like cursive vessels surfing the waves.
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Ink flows differently from ballpoint pens, he wrote, making it more natural to separate letters (in print) than to join them together (in cursive).
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"Emily's first time at Disneyland," the Younger star captioned a photograph of Mickey Mouse ears with her daughter's name written on them in cursive.
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The bottom of the painting of a pipe is lined with a cursive, reading, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (This is not a pipe).
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So when a new, much simpler method of cursive was developed in the 1920s — the Palmer Method — it quickly became universal in American classrooms.
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That made it easier for the youngest children to write in class, but it started paving the way for the downfall of cursive altogether.
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Cursive writing may have gone out of fashion, but numerous states across the country are moving to reintroduce it into their elementary-school curriculums.
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"Fuller House" star Elias Harger might only be 9 but little dude's already inking his contracts with his 4th grade cursive and John Hancock.
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I know that this is very highly revered amongst Cursive listeners, but I just personally feel that… well, I guess I'll start with positives.
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Some admit that the muscle memory to handwrite their names—that last vestige of cursive—is atrophying, leaving them with an inconsistent John Hancock.
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No Resolution is also the first album on 15 Passenger which is your new label with your Cursive bandmates Matt Maginn and Ted Stevens.
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So far, more than half a dozen states—including California, Massachusetts and North Carolina—have made teaching cursive handwriting mandatory throughout their public schools.
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To the Editor: As a university professor, I can tell you that students who cannot write cursive also don't know how to read it.
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While Alabama schools were already required to teach cursive, they must now report proficiency levels to the state at the end of each year.
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Yes, cursive writing advocates recognize that modern students and adults spend far more time typing into laptops and phones than scribbling pen onto paper.
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You can personalize this comfortable Pima cotton tee with "mom" or "mama" — or any other name up to nine characters — in cute, loopy cursive.
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The letters, written in cursive on lined or blank paper in black ink, detail his day-to-day of maturing and transitioning, Magee said.
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The state of Ohio has decided to kick off the new year by forcing children to learn cursive by the end of fifth grade.
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Basically the opposite of Cursive: Super noisy, lots of yelling, nice dynamic changes, experimental songs structures, somehow cerebral and soulful at the same time.
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You can go with the classic monogram in a variety of eye-catching styles, or spell out an entire name in a cursive script.
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While cursive has been relegated to nearly extinct tasks like writing thank-you cards and signing checks, rumors of its death may be exaggerated.
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We love when this happens in the real world: the apartments with incorrect spelling or phrasing and cursive and gold to aggrandize an apartment building.
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You recently signed to Saddle Creek, which is famously home to Bright Eyes, Hop Along, Cursive, and lots of other great bands of that ilk.
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In addition to the confection's anatomical shape, it also included the cheeky line, "Same penis forever" written in a fancy cursive script along the side.
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But he also notes the delineation between his favorite Cursive albums and the best ones, the records that fans love and critics heaped praise upon.
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Apparently, kids today can't read letters their grandparents have written in cursive, and that's a big problem as far as Washington state legislators are concerned.
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Supporters of the cursive mandate typically point to historic documents, such as the Constitution, as a reason for requiring students to learn the handwriting style.
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But again, because it's been six years and we've gone in a handful of directions, I think that makes sense that it sounds like Cursive.
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Researchers are also aware that more than mere pride in penmanship is lost when people can no longer even read, let alone write, cursive script.
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John Kasich (R) signed into law a bill that requires students to be able to write legibly in cursive by the end of fifth grade.
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Nearly two years later, the artist Azikiwe Mohammed airbrushed Bland's face onto a black t-shirt and forged a gold ring reading "Sandra" in cursive.
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But some states and local school boards still require students to learn it, and the utility of cursive is an ongoing debate across the country.
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At least nine states and numerous districts have lobbied, successfully, to reintroduce cursive into public and publicly funded charter schools, and others have bills pending.
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When I went back on Tuesday, one of the archivists presented me with the file — cream-colored, bound with string and titled in neat cursive.
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From Victoria's neat cursive to Rasputin's illegible scrawl, a Morgan Library & Museum show celebrates the quirky traces left by the hands of notable historical figures.
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And beginning this fall, second graders in Texas will learn cursive, and will be required to know how to write it legibly by third grade.
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In the United States, in 2010, Common Core standards excluded cursive requirements in elementary schools, and most states no longer require students to learn it.
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It was elegantly adorned with a white ribbon and decorative green and gold leaves — and had Hudgens' first name engraved in cursive on the lid.
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"In some cases, children are entering middle school without knowing how to sign their own name in cursive," McKnight (D-Hudson) said in a statement.
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Cursive fans argue that a computer or phone keyboard is still not quite up to the task of autographing a yearbook or endorsing a check.
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And then comes the awful last step: You are forced to scribble your name in some grotesque cursive that'd make your first grade teacher wince.
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Maritza Lacayo, part of PAMM's curatorial team, informed me that the bricks take the form of cursive lettering from a poem Cerviño hand-wrote herself.
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And slowly sign one by one, mirroring more of a third grader practicing cursive for the first time, than a newly American Expat arriving in Asia.
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They could almost be typographic — like the curves and lines of cursive — but they also resemble musical notation, or some other semaphore that eludes easy reading.
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One of the causes of the misunderstanding, according to Professor Attilio Bartoli Langeli, was because the notary's handwriting was "decidedly bad cursive script, awkward and careless".
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The 37-year-old royal wrote, "Does this feel like paper?!" showing off her loopy cursive, and drew a tree in the middle of some bushes.
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Eager to take a different approach and make the pink YETI Rambler even more special, she customized it with a fancy cursive monogram in white lettering.
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"I try to make time for teaching cursive, but it's definitely not taught in every classroom like it was when I was a student," she said.
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The 19-year-old model and daughter of the late Michael Jackson had the nickname "Applehead" inked in cursive across the top of her left foot.
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It is fronted by a shallow rectangular pool whose primary feature is a twisted, blue steel beam bent into a loop, like an unfamiliar cursive letter.
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If the trend continues, we may see cursive writing soon join its former companion—the quill and inkwell—in the annals of history where it belongs.
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Trubek also said students didn't necessarily need cursive to come up with their own signature that conferred their "indviduality" and "uniqueness" in signing legal forms either.
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Father Ramsey arrived alone and brought with him a large book containing baptismal records of the orphanage, its tattered pages filled with rows of cursive handwriting.
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So lest we take things too seriously, Coppola employs a pink cursive script for the title card, embellished with flourishes and compressed slightly from both ends.
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Surry County, across the James River from Jamestown, is rich in American history; its courthouse has parchment deeds, written in Colonial-era cursive, that date to 0003.
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"Developing out of the line of cursive handwriting," said Dieter Buchhart, the show's curator, "he found a way to transform that line into a three-dimensional object."
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"Approved to proceed on the death penalty," Mr. Castille wrote, in neat cursive script, authorizing prosecutors to seek the execution of a young murderer named Terrance Williams.
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She debuted the cursive tattoo tribute to her former fiancé at the end of June, in an Instagram photo that also showed off her blinding engagement ring.
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My best friend wrote it out in perfect cursive handwriting, measuring the size of a paperclip on my left arm (also the location of my nonexistent bicep).
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One was for the image of the word in a stylized cursive font, the other was a "word mark" — just the word "cocky" in and of itself.
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Instead, she had wrapped a Band-Aid on her ring finger, in the exact same spot where she has a tattoo of Davidson's name written in cursive.
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But it was only after the artist completed the cursive handwriting of "Nova & Kelvin" did Sandstrom realize that there was a completely different name on her body.
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Instead of waving it around like a novelty, Cursive found how to use despair effectively, pulling back at just the right moments to keep the audience hooked.
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I believe what is ultimately driving this obsession with saving cursive is the parents who believe that whatever they did, their kids should have to do too.
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I can see how cursive may be helpful to some kids, but by and large the arguments for forcing children to learn it are weak as hell.
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The Ohio Senate passed a bill Thursday requiring each student in the state to be able to write in cursive by the end of the fifth grade.
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My best friend's sister, Priscilla, who lived a few floors below me, wore a huge pair with her name inscribed inside their curves in the prettiest cursive.
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Later, on Thursday morning, Kardashian showed off a very special jewelry item that honors her only child: a chain-link, choker-style necklace bearing True's name in cursive.
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There's nothing worse than attempting to speed-read 0.2 size cursive neon green font on a bright yellow border in less than 15 seconds before the Story switches.
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Most schools now give teachers the option of assigning cursive homework and classwork to their students, and many have chosen not to devote the time to the skill.
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Students in the state will now be required to write legibly in print by the end of third grade and in cursive by the end of fifth grade.
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But in recent years, the reasoning for cursive became associated with "convention, tradition, conservatism," she said, and tied to discussions about school uniforms and the Pledge of Allegiance.
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The top lot of the bunch: Zhu Yunming's "Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River in Cursive Script" (1525), realized in ink on paper across a handscroll.
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Lush and gorgeous, their teeming biomorphic shapes are given density by richly colored threads (including metallic) and evoke nonspecific mixes of cartoons, cursive writing and views through microscopes.
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New Jersey school districts still have the option of teaching cursive, according to the state School Boards Association, which has not taken a position on Ms. McKnight's bill.
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Professor Plakins Thornton, who wrote the book "Handwriting in America: A Cultural History," said the pendulum tended to swing back toward cursive instruction during times of cultural upheaval.
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Thus, on a number of the texts he has written in black cursive his own comments and annotations, explicating and contextualizing, and in a few cases amending them.
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Over a few days in April, in precise cursive with little flourishes on the capital letters, Adaline describes the crew butchering whales and boiling the blubber into oil.
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Writing at the Atlantic in 2015, John Giesbrecht made the case that the ballpoint pen — and not personal computers — is responsible for the decline of formal handwriting, particularly cursive.
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Luna's first bar was made of milk chocolate and filled with mini-marshmallows, nuts and Reese's Pieces, and white icing was used to spell her name in cursive letters.
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Tumblr also added more text styles for text posts, so that users can now add headers, make lists, and use serif fonts, a Courier-like typewriter font, and cursive.
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Since 2016, a total of 18 states in the U.S. have moved to re-embrace cursive, with 14 of those states being located in the South, according to CNN.
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A single rose, decorated with white ribbon, graced every seat, with the victim's name written in gold cursive script on its back along with a cross painted in red.
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Those who have cultivated cursive handwriting often exhibit two quite different styles: a carefully formed "fair hand" for composing formal letters; and a scribble for making hurried personal notes.
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But had Cursive not allowed itself to see how far down the rabbit hole it could go, maybe the band would have never known what it'd be capable of.
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The names in Chinese are generally the closest phonetic representation of the English words, sometimes with the English below for show (a floral, cursive or Gothic script is preferred).
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The Ohio Department of Education is expected to craft a new curriculum for students that incorporates supplemental materials in cursive handwriting before the start of the next school year.
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Marquez explained that with increasing demands on teachers to meet school and state standards, cursive is one skill that often isn't taught if it's not required by the curriculum.
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They are romantic dispatches from another world, written in perfect cursive on letterpress stationery and filled with musings on agrarian socialism and Mr. Stillman's appreciation of Ms. Pyne's charms.
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Watching the Democrats talk in cursive, warning of the End Times, should tell us what we need to know about their ability to credibly weaponize taxes for the midterms.
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The middle of the property is left open to create more of a cursive V than a triangle, which makes for longer units, with more views of the park.
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It's been several years since the company branched out into consumer electronics, and along the way, it's been remarkably consistent with the products that bear its iconic cursive logo.
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"It's a contagious disease, it is lethal, it is serious," recited Diongue, his lap piled with textbooks and notes he had jotted down in wobbly cursive during the program.
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AI algorithms that perform character recognition and natural language processing could read the cursive and summarize the text, before a software robot inputs the text into, say, a website.
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"It's a contagious disease, it is lethal, it is serious," recited Diongue, his lap piled with textbooks and notes he had jotted down in wobbly cursive during the programme.
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Bowling-pin-shaped birds, gargantuan flowers, trees as confidently cursive as Charles Schultz drawings, and other postmodern figurative ideograms crowd around them, filling the canvas from edge to edge.
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"When writing cursive, the word becomes a unit, rather than a series of separate strokes, and correct spelling is more likely to be retained," says the International Dyslexia Association.
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In "A Defense of Cursive, From a 10-Year-Old National Champion," Tracey Tully writes: A fifth grader in New Jersey is a master of curlicues and connecting loops.
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In a cursive typeface, the letter "D" sits underneath a coronet, which features two crosses pattée (a type of Christian cross), four fleurs-de-lys and two strawberry leaves.
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Swimming across the glossy floors of the art space, the dancer is a lose human tendon in white sneakers, passing over the floor as if tracing out cursive letters.
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"With every step I take, you lift my foot and guide me forward," Paris captioned an Instagram shot of the tattoo, written in cursive across the top of her foot.
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The KKW Beauty mogul appropriately captioned the image — which appeared to be of a purple shirt with the word "Chicago" written on it in cursive font — with a baby emoji.
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In the video, Cyrus is posted up on Keith "Bang Bang" McCurdy's table getting the word "pussy" permanently drawn on her left ankle in bold cursive letters (you know, nbd).
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Moss' stylist Karla Welch Instagrammed a close-up shot of the bottom of Moss' Olgana Paris heels that showed the word "off" written in cursive on one of the soles.
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It seems Zayn has gotten the word "love" scrawled in cursive across his right hand which previously only featured a pair of partially open red lips with smoke rolling out.
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Even with all that Cursive and Kasher have accomplished musically since their early days, Such Blinding Stars for Starving Eyes, still holds up as a great record 20 years later.
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The fact that cursive writing is not vital to communication does not diminish its beauty, its ability to delight or its value as an antidote to our increasingly homogenized society.
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SAM GOODYEAR Binghamton, N.Y. To the Editor: Forty-four years ago, my boyfriend proposed to me in a note, written in cursive, which he placed under my car's windshield wiper.
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The bill required students in the state to be able to write legibly in print by the end of third grade and in cursive by the end of fifth grade.
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Ms. Khan also posts her ceramics on Instagram, at RuthBaderKilnsburg: mugs and pitchers emblazoned with the words "male tears" and "i ain't sorry," for the Beyoncé song, in looping cursive.
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But in two small canvases included here, he pushed almost all the action toward the edges — like Madiha Umar's watercolor, they unmistakably recall the irregular vertical movements of cursive writing.
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"Knowing how to write in cursive isn't only for writing 'thank you' cards to Grandma — research suggests it can boost kids' reading and writing skills, too," says publishing company Scholastic.
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After MOLA's team photographed the treated tablets and combined the images to accentuate the scratches, cursive Latin expert Dr. Roger Tomlin used microscopic analysis to read and reconstruct the texts.
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Grande, too, got her new ink on a very telling place: she had Pete's name tattooed on her left ring finger in small, lowercase cursive, which the new heart now covers.
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These defenders of cursive writing say they're spurred into action by the Common Core — new standards for what students should know and be able to do in language arts and math.
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She goes inside to deliver the lemur to Paula, the daughter, and on the door, in cursive letters is a name that means nothing to Linda, but everything to us: Nazlunds.
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So just as fans of Fred Rogers will always remember his trademark cardigans, Marshall will always be linked to her signature cursive L. Want more stories from The Goods by Vox?
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They show spices and grains neatly divided into cursive-labeled holding cells, cereals removed from their unsightly cardboard containers and placed inside transparent ones, and china arranged on shelves ombre-style.
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How much did taking time off of the band, as well as welcoming Clint back, as well as these new members into the writing process, feel like Cursive could start fresh?
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If anything, it adds to the horror by reminding me of the many years I spent learning cursive because my grade school teachers swore it was the only way adults communicated.
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The tat says "muggsy" in cursive, and if the hundreds of comments asking about the meaning of the word are any indication, even her biggest fans aren't sure what to think.
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A design from Georgina Chapman, half of the Marchesa design pair, featured black cursive lettering and beading on a dark gray background, and was paired with floor-skimming ball gown skirts.
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In some cases, FARA registrants report none of the work they've done, answer questions with "see the attached" and then attach nothing, or report their political activities in nearly illegible cursive.
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Constellations of rounded shapes and swirling lines, and bits of cursive writing, float against the backgrounds in those same colors, as well as harmonious shades of yellow, green, black, and white.
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Those lessons are falling by the wayside as states adopt Common Core standards, which only require manuscript handwriting instruction until the first grade and cursive instruction is not mandated at all.
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In sharp contrast with the graffitied, bike-racked, juice-bar-lined streets that comprise our universe, the Trump Tower is all marble and brass and cursive and worn red velvet curtains.
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Every time I had to explain in an interview why I wrote "cursive" under skills, I wondered if I'd been right in assuming the internet would be a passing a fad.
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One shows a Coca-Cola bottle, the cursive lettering of its logo replaced with the words "Crude Oil" — a classic gesture by Mr. Fairey, who has often riffed on print advertising.
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Though the body of the message was typed — on custom stationary from Kensington Palace — the royal personalized the note by writing "Dear Khadijah" and signing her full name "Catherine" in cursive.
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So we got to know his whole crew and The Faint and Cursive, and we got to know Robb and Jeff who run Saddle Creek, so eventually we met all those dudes.
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In an Instagram photo posted by Grande's manicurist, Davidson's first name can be seen tattooed across the pop star's left-hand ring finger in dainty cursive — just above her $93,000 engagement ring .
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The new design hid her cursive "Pete" tattoo, which she had debuted for her former fiancé at the end of June, but later covered with a band-aid days after breaking up.
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Unlike the Cambridge clan — whose profile photo is a wholesome, autumnal family portrait — the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have a logo: a cursive, monogrammed H and M, topped with a coronet.
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In a series of videos and photos posted to his Instagram Story, Offset, 26, showed off the tattoo, which spells out his baby girl's name along his jawline in a cursive font.
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Ted Stevens [guitarist], who was writing a lot for that record, I feel he did a nice job of keeping things weirder and darker, and I was leaning too pop for Cursive.
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Street artist Julian Rivera claims his copyrighted design, a heart symbol enlaced with the word "Love" in cursive, was used in a DeGeneres-designed apparel line sold at Walmart without his permission.
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Written in blue cursive, Ms. Maramotti's new tattoo is the single word "Crossroads," a reference to the Mississippi intersection where, according to legend, the bluesman Robert Johnson sold the devil his soul.
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JonBoy posted a close-up photo of Bieber's new ink on New Year's Day, which showed off his face tattoo situated right above his right eyebrow that reads "grace" written in cursive.
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From the mid-19th century through the 1930s, Spencerian script was the dominant form of cursive taught in American classrooms; it was elegant and filled with flourishes, as in Coca Cola's logo.
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She was wearing large hoop earrings with "Geronimo" written in cursive and a white suit covered in green, blue, yellow, purple and red butterflies that she hot-glued onto the suit herself.
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In 2016, lawmakers in Washington introduced a bill backing cursive after Pam Roach, then a Republican state senator, noted that a constituent had said her grandchild could not read a handwritten letter.
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Cursive may be particularly helpful for those with developmental dysgraphia — motor-control difficulties in forming letters — and it may help prevent the reversal and inversion of letters, according to a 2012 report.
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One of her pillows has the cursive catchphrase "I'd rather be golfing!" above swingers at a retirement community having a foursome on a green while their caddies watch and fondle the clubs.
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In response, lawmakers in state after state -- particularly in the South -- are carving out space in teachers' classroom time to keep the graceful loops of cursive writing alive for the next generation.
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Some of the signatures, particularly those from schools, are arranged in playful patterns, whether filling a sketch of the eagle on the Polish coat of arms, or spelling out "Polska" in cursive.
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These drawings (still made of cookie-cutter shapes of stencils) also feature an extra detail: the ancient ledger paper on which they are spread are embellished with original handwritten notes in elegant cursive.
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Cardi B took to Instagram Wednesday to show off her 7-month-old daughter's new bling: a custom diamond bracelet from Shyne Jewelers, which was designed to spell out Kulture's name in cursive.
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The VHS tape, marked "Reel 1" in her mother's thick cursive, sat in the center of the coffee table like a flower arrangement until it became sun-bleached and was no longer playable.
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But the Common Core really just reflects a longstanding trend: cursive handwriting has been on its way out for two generations, long before texting became the preferred way for young people to communicate.
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"I'm from the old school, but with government documents and contracts and things like that, you need your cursive signature," Nay Roach, a fourth-grade teacher at Sam Houston Elementary School, told KSLA.
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At a station beside a stately school, a wall enjoins travellers to "hope, hope"; the words are English, the lower-case letters in the looping, cursive hand that French children must still perfect.
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I could always tell from the outline of that page, with each measurement and temperature laid out in Mom's impossibly perfect cursive, that she took her responsibility as Keeper of the Mac seriously.
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The third grader at St. John's Regional Catholic School in Frederick, Maryland, said when her teacher first taught her how to write in cursive, she found she had a natural talent for it.
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Even the three tiny drawings, each filled with repeating cursive words to create a pattern, reference the wire rope sculpture in the previous gallery and hold their own on a giant white wall.
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Pages and pages on Chaucer and ions and the Ming dynasty and isosceles triangles and "The Scarlet Letter," with notes of encouragement from my teachers written in fancy cursive lettering in the margins.
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Baldwin's lowercase cursive "G" tattoo behind her left ear stands for "Georgia," the daughter of Pastor Chad Veach and Julia Veach who was diagnosed with rare brain disorder, Lissencephaly, at four months old.
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Dr. Berninger cited a 2015 study that suggested that starting around fourth grade, cursive skills conferred advantages in both spelling and composing, perhaps because the connecting strokes helped children connect letters into words.
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Dr. Berninger said the research suggests that children need introductory training in printing, then two years of learning and practicing cursive, starting in grade three, and then some systematic attention to touch-typing.
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And to ensure everyone knows these are not just any Hello Kitty bags, they feature a black satin lining protruding from the top of the bag, embroidered with "Balenciaga" written in white cursive.
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Just check it out: For those of you who can only read cursive, here's the statement: I mean, come on—the kid couldn't even watch the game because it was a school night!
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All students must still learn to write by hand cleanly and legibly, and considering most of us rarely lift a pen these days to begin with, why is cursive writing still a thing?
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When we lived in rural France, my family would hear about the beginning of mango season in India through a series of pale, see-through aerogrammes, filled up to the edges with cursive.
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In "The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign)" (1967), the titular message is spelled out in looping cursive in a spiral, moving from the inside out.
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Every day for an hour, our teacher wrote sentences and paragraphs on the three slate blackboards in our classroom, and we dutifully copied them into notebooks, in cursive, with our leaky fountain pens.
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On Wednesday, the two were all smiles as they left a Hillsong church service in Los Angeles before grabbing dinner at Crossroads, with Sabbat wearing a black hat emblazoned with "Kardashian" in gold cursive.
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In the 1860s, as elementary education became more universal, the most widely used form of handwriting was the Spencerian Script — the loopy, ornate cursive most commonly seen now on formal invitations and college diplomas.
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A spokeswoman for the Texas Education Agency told CNN that although cursive has been a part of the education standards in the state for years, the changes will put an "added emphasis" on it.
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It's easy to lose track of all of Malik's tattoos, so we're not surprised a lot of fans nearly missed his newest design of the name Yaser, written in cursive behind his right ear.
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They were also printed in a new cursive or "italic" typeface to increase ease of reading while making it possible for more text to be fitted onto fewer pages, while still allowing generous margins.
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As you can see in the video below, the feature also comes with several fonts to pick from, including one in neon cursive: WABetaInfo has posted several screenshots of the Type feature in action.
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Once used for all official communications, cursive has been taught for 300 years but has been declining in schools since the 1970s, according to a 2010 analysis by the Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
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When an Ohio second grader joins in to whinge about achy pen-holding fingers, handwriting — and specifically cursive, now eradicated from the Common Core curriculum — becomes as hot a topic as in Erasmus's day.
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A study published in 2006 that followed children in grades two to five showed that printing, cursive writing, and typing on a keyboard are associated with separate brain patterns and lead to different results.
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But some research has been taken out of context, or misrepresented, to further a pro-cursive agenda, said Kate Gladstone, who calls herself the Handwriting Repairwoman and runs an organization by the same name.
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Compared to Cinderella's frilly cursive, Tarzan's closed-fist scrawl, and the paw print serving as an "O" in Pluto, Pocahontas's autograph looks as though she painted it with all the colors of the wind.
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With his scraggly beard and pencils tucked into his cap, Mr. Smith showed off his training guitar recently: a black walnut and spruce beauty with a cursive "Smith" inlaid in abalone on the neck.
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At Our Lady of Grace, Ms. D'Amico said assignments are sometimes done on computers, and turned in electronically, while others must be written in cursive and turned in on paper, forcing students to unplug.
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The singer, 25, debuted two new tattoos on the left side of his neck featuring the word "forever" written in cursive letters and a drawing of a bird in an Instagram photo on Thursday.
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He includes a penmanship joke in his new set ("Anything my daughter writes looks like a letter from the Zodiac killer to the police") and complains about how schools don't teach cursive writing anymore.
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Smith's company claims that Hampton Creek's pivot from cursive has caused customers to confuse the two brands, which previously were easier to differentiate—and in doing so, associated the mayo company's baggage with both companies.
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I actually switched classes mid-year and they were ahead of my previous class and I nearly freaked out because I wasn't good enough and went to a family friend to train me in cursive.
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And the fact that their audience is still there 20 years after their debut is exactly why Cursive was and continues to be one of the greatest success stories from this class of emo pioneers.
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Atop a Kensington Palace press release about the Duchess's coat of arms — which includes several subtle nods to her home state of California — is her official monogram, a simple cursive "M" topped by a crown.
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Behind them, Chiwenga's house was a gray, blocky modernist structure busy with many banks of windows and "C&M" (for Constantino, his first name, and Mary—his wife's) emblazoned in gigantic cursive on the side.
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I feel sorry for any person who has never had the pleasure of receiving a beautifully crafted or perhaps clumsily handwritten letter in cursive writing that reflects time, effort and the personality of the writer.
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She adjusted the straps around her face, smiled at my doodle, waved her hand in the air, danced around the room, drew her name in perfect cursive, and tossed the Oculus back in my hands.
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TMZ on Wednesday released footage from the day before of the first lady inking her name in black cursive on a mural covered in an array of brightly colored hearts as onlookers clap and cheer.
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The Common Core standards adopted by most states in 2010 do not require teaching cursive, and many districts have chosen to spend their limited time, money and resources on core subjects or more modern skills.
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The Oscar winner, 49, got the names of his four daughters — Stella [Zavala], 9, Gia [Zavala], 11, Isabella, 13, and Alexia, 20 — tattooed in fine-line cursive on his right upper arm over the summer.
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The best one could do would be to describe their music as sludge—in the vein of early Mastodon or Baroness—with strings in that remind of non-metal bands Murder By Death or Cursive.
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When Anne Trubek, the author of "The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting," started studying the resurgence of cursive about a decade ago, reasons for teaching it focused on developing a civilized, well-mannered population.
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Nearly a week later, nearly 83 people gathered at a vigil, one of many this past summer, wearing red hats and shirts with the sixth-grader's nickname, "Whogi," imprinted in cursive, Facebook Live videos showed.
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On Monday, the singer shared that she got a cursive "T" by artist Rafael Valdez on her arm in honor of her friend Thomas Trussell III, who passed away from an overdose this past week.
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She pointed to the early 1900s, with its influx of immigrants, and the 1960s, when America was roiled by the antiwar movement and the sexual revolution, as two of the biggest heydays for cursive instruction.
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After earning a degree in political science at Drew University in Madison, N.J., in 1960, Mr. Castile taught history and chancery cursive, a 15th-century form of calligraphy, at St. Thomas Choir School in Manhattan.
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The only proper point of comparison is the production of my own hand when I write in cursive: See how it is readable, utilitarian, sort of beautiful, but still bloated and messy and highly imperfect?
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In a complaint filed in a California District Court on Monday, July 29, Rivera claims his copyrighted design, a heart symbol enlaced with the word "Love" in cursive, was used in the collection without his permission.
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If you've ever gotten a letter or card from a grandparent, you've probably seen the Palmer Method: Around the time the Palmer Method was introduced, children also started learning to print before they learned cursive writing.
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But, today, most, if not all, of the Rat Pack is dead, a new generation thinks of Michael Douglas as Liberace, and the practice of comping alcohol is going the way of cursive handwriting and landlines.
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Students who take class notes by hand better retain that information, and, fascinatingly, not only does the brain process capital letters and lowercase letters differently, but block printing, cursive and typing each elicit distinctive neurological patterns.
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When it comes to writing about the darker side of relationships, there are few songwriters more adept than Cursive and The Good Life frontman Tim Kasher, and his third solo album No Resolution is no exception.
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There have been cursive scripts since the beginning of writing: The Egyptians invented one of the first, demotic, which allowed scribes to take notes on business transactions and Pharaonic laws faster than they could using hieroglyphics.
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As the eye drifts around the sensually grainy surface of the photograph, it is drawn to the margins, where Morrisroe signed, dated, and drew on the image in scribbled cursive alongside scratches of reds and pinks.
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But a new logo, made to mimic the founder's flowing cursive signature, that squiggled over fur and fabric gave an abstractly personal edge to the clothes that connected what was with what they want to be.
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Abetting this naïveté is his belief that if he learns to write in cursive, he can reclaim his ladylove, a futile obsession mirrored by Jeremy's conviction that repairing an ancient respirator will save his dying grandfather.
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Some were thrown out for omitting zip codes, using cursive writing instead of print, or writing in the current date instead of a birth date, they said, disenfranchising thousands of voters in recent elections, especially minorities.
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As attention to the genre grew, some bands from the mid- to late-90s generation of emo, like Hot Water Music, The Promise Ring, and Cursive, found varying degrees of success and influence on future generations.
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If it passes, Washington would join states as politically diverse as Tennessee, North Carolina, California, Georgia, Idaho, and Massachusetts that in the past few years have passed bills requiring schools to teach students to write in cursive.
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I moved away for a little bit and, coming back to Omaha and making that decision to do Cursive again, and having Domestica come out of it, that was one of the bigger decisions in my life.
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In an Instagram post on Sunday, Offset shared a screengrab of himself FaceTiming Cardi B, who appeared to be lifting her leg up to show off his name tattooed in cursive on the back of her thigh.
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They work and fret at such a pace, And natter in between, with clicks And churrs, they lift the raftered place (Seaside taverna) with their tricks Of cursive loops and Morse-code call, Both analog and digital.
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Andrew Brenner told the local news media in Ohio in December, when he was a state representative, that he had co-sponsored a bill requiring cursive instruction because studies show benefits for brain development and hand dexterity.
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In 2013, Ms. Gladstone traced research that was used in bills in North and South Carolina to require cursive instruction in schools to a for-profit company that creates instructional materials to teach handwriting, Zaner-Bloser Publishing.
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The model and activist made headlines earlier this month when she debuted the words "Bash Slash" -- devoted to her sons "Bash" (for Sebastian Taylor) and "Slash" (for Electric Alexander Edwards) -- in cursive letters just below her hairline.
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Users were quick to take to Twitter hailing the arrival, furiously questioning when they would get the update if they hadn't already, and noting how certain fonts, like the cursive script of "neon", added character to their Stories.
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The PSAT requires students to write a paragraph in cursive saying that they won't cheat, a requirement that has produced plenty of angst even though today's test-takers learned to write in class long before the Common Core.
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The reformed troublemaker got a bald eagle with wings spread and talons outstretched sandwiched between another recent addition, the "Son of God" ab tattoo he got in November, and the word "Purpose" in cursive over his belly button.
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In 2011, Marshall explained to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis why her character wore a cursive L. The script, she said, had her repeating her name and profession, a bottle capper in a brewery, on every other page.
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Margo had scrawled on the back of the essay, in sloppy, barely legible cursive that Eve couldn't help but think of as manly, even though she knew it was a faulty mental reflex, a kind of residual transphobia.
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As we talked, it became clear that he'd found a bit of freedom making this record, as he allowed himself to make a record that sounded like Cursive, a thing he'd been a bit cagey about doing before.
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Unfortunately, I can barely remember how to write in cursive, and I've found that my preferred style of all-caps printing penmanship (if you can even call it that) seems to tax the reMarkable tablet's 1GHz ARM A9 processor.
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In the last few weeks alone, we spotted several cool labels and It girls on Instagram trying to make that gaudy cursive lettering and rhinestone goodness a thing once again — and we don't know how to feel about it.
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Although Texas, the latest state to embrace cursive writing, first updated its state Education Code with the changes in 2017, they're set to take place at the start of the 2019-2020 school year in September, according to WCNC.
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With the handwriting feature, I've probably spent more time writing in cursive in the past two weeks than in the entire previous 15 years combined, and there's nothing better than delivering dreadful news with an ironic "laser" screen effect.
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Mounted on the wall alongside Wolek's confections is Marchand's "international treaty," where lines of cursive ceramic writing extrude, bend, and loop to resemble words but are actually only inscrutable glyphs, as fittingly elusive as any meaningful treaty these days.
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In "To write fire until it is every breath," the faces of Ida B. Wells, Angela Davis, and Ella Baker jump out from a background of plants, dotted patterns, and scrawled cursive words rendered in purples, maroons, and pinks.
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On lined 21.2 by 298 inch pages, in penciled-in cursive, she captures American history in staccato fragments, jotting down what laborers paid for gas, rent and food; how much they could make picking a day's worth of potatoes.
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The word "Pop" in blue and white, 3-D font hovers atop a burst of red and seems only a centrally situated backdrop to the negative cloud-shaped relief that hosts the ironically plucky cursive "américa" overlaid in the foreground.
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But although Watson seemed to enjoy showing off her statement-making ink — which was written in a black cursive script — chances are it won't be around for long, as it appeared to be only a temporary tattoo upon closer inspection.
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The actress got her first tattoo in July 2018 of the phrase, "aced out in her nudes" that was hand-written in cursive on the top of her left forearm by Jim Down, a tattoo artist at Studio City Tattoo.
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Since then, the band has gone on extended breaks, but they've never fully took, ensuring that, even if it's been five years since their last album, 2012's I Am Gemini, Cursive is always waiting for the right moment to reappear.
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Photo by Shervin Lainez When it comes to writing about the darker side of relationships, there are few songwriters more adept than Cursive and The Good Life frontman Tim Kasher, and his third solo album No Resolution is no exception.
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Saving net neutrality became a sort of dark-humored meme, reactions to Senate votes written in cursive font: Net neutrality was officially repealed Monday, and it's a day that, at least on Tumblr, has been largely met with bleak resignation.
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In an Instagram post on Sunday, the Migos rapper shared a screengrab of himself FaceTiming Cardi B, who appears to be lifting her leg up to show her husband his name tattooed in cursive on the back of her thigh.
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And though Cursive had yet to learn this at the time, their debut is an intensely complicated and involved album, and a great start to an over 20-year career that still finds them playing sold-out theaters across the world.
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Contrary to the proliferation of cursive-scripted, Earth toned "Mama Blogs" you have likely come across whether or not you too are pregnant, my experience has clearly been nothing in the remote vicinity of blissful, magical, or earth-goddess-like.
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The boy's words are hand-drawn inside comic-book-style dialogue bubbles, and Bravi cleverly changes the lettering to reflect tone; the boy speaks in cursive when he is sweet and beseeching, and in all capital letters when he is yelling.
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English cursive in its most basic definition—handwriting where the letters loop and conjoin in each word—has been around for centuries, but really had its moment in the 1800s, when students spent years learning, practicing, and perfecting their script.
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But as a left-hander with terrible handwriting who watched my son struggle to master cursive — he had to stay inside during recess for much of third grade because he wrote his j's backward — that is a loss I can weather.
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She did get a tattoo above her rib cage in cursive lettering that reads, "to build a home" — an ethos she said "reminds her to strengthen both her sense of self and the environment around her," according to Women's Health.
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I stared at the documents scattered across my desk: my neat cursive on the handwritten confession; a faded yellow summons demanding my mother appear in court, as if my crime belonged to her; the sentencing order consigning me to prison.
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Amber Rose and her boyfriend Amber Rose made headlines earlier this month when she debuted the words "Bash Slash" -- devoted to her sons "Bash" (for Sebastian Taylor) and "Slash" (for Electric Alexander Edwards) -- in cursive letters just below her hairline.
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To the Editor: Re "It Swirled Out of Style, and Now It Loops Back" (news article, April 14): Learning to write cursive was the most important thing I've ever done, even though I did it in the third and fourth grades.
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We caught up with Kasher, who now lives in Los Angeles, to discuss his subconscious fear of having children, how he writes for multiple bands, and why he decided to start a new label with his Cursive bandmates to release No Resolution.
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Somehow, in the midst of all that, he found time to slowly work up a new batch of Cursive songs, the first with the band's founding drummer Clint Schnase in a decade, as well as with cellist Megan Seibe and keyboardist Patrick Newbery.
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The mom of two shared a black-and-white snap of their sexy setup, which also included a Kama Sutra massage oil candle, a plate of Skittles, and a game scorecard that had "Bedroom Edition" written across the top in large cursive letters.
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"MY MOTHERLAND is the Soviet Union," reads a sentence written in cursive script in one of the exercise books scattered on the floor of an abandoned school in Pripyat, a Soviet-era ghost town in Ukraine next to the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
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The cones all spin hypnotically, and the smaller sculptures bear brief spiraling poems, like "WHO ARE YOU AM I." The largest sculpture is simply a tree-sized white cone traced with looping swirls of red light, cutting across it like a gentle cursive.
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The word nerds at the Pioneer Institute argue that students should learn cursive because it would allow them to read historical documents such as the US Constitution and Magna Carta, as if no web pages on all of the internet contain transcripts.
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Technology has threatened to extinguish the art of cursive writing ever since then, as the ballpoint pen (which allowed ink to dry more quickly, reducing the risk of smudging if printing), typewriter, and computer edged out the need for pretty swirls of script.
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Each week, I would take my place in front of a ruled board, just as I had when I was learning cursive, and spend two hours squeezing Crisco (cheaper and more forgiving than frosting) into shapes that always fell short of botanical verisimilitude.
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Even as keyboards and screens have supplanted pencil and paper in schools, lawmakers and defenders of cursive have lobbied to re-establish this old-school writing pedagogy across the country, igniting a debate about American values and identity and exposing intergenerational fault lines.
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I was writing in my journal one day — I write in cursive — and I realized that the kids and grandkids I imagined reading my journal one day probably wouldn't be able to decode my handwriting, since cursing is getting phased out of schools.
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So far, this past year has brought Donald Trump scrawling " nice " on a map that showed the Golan Heights as part of Israel; an Ohio law encouraging the return of cursive; and the Duchess of Sussex doing calligraphy at a nursing home.
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It's true that nothing communicates well wishes better than a handwritten note, but basic designs just won't cut it — no one is that excited about sticking a Christmas tree graphic with "Season's Greetings" in cursive font up on the fridge for all to see.
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The Zaner-Bloser writing method which gained favour instead taught first-graders to print in manuscript (ie, block letters) rather than learn to form cursive characters; only later would they be taught how to join the characters up into a continuous stream of words.
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"As we have done with the abacus and the slide rule, it is time to retire the teaching of cursive," Morgan Polikoff, an associate professor of education at the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education, wrote in Room for Debate in 2013.
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And beyond the emotional connection adults may feel to the way we learned to write, there is a growing body of research on what the normally developing brain learns by forming letters on the page, in printed or manuscript format as well as in cursive.
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As in every other week of this year's Summer Reading Contest, Week 226 attracted a record number of entries — 1,101 — as teenagers around the world took on everything from Election 2016 and the role of the police in America to Snapchat, cursive, lionfish and flossing.
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On these pages was a story scribbled in the curvy cursive loops of the religious leader who told my mother that she had once been a brave pioneer on the edge of the Western frontier defending hard-won land from the onslaught of Indians.
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His trademark style is single-needle, fine-line tattooing, what his fans simply call tiny tattoos: hearts and flowers and city skylines etched in black ink and shrunken to emoji size; the names of loved ones and inspirational mantras rendered in his squiggly, miniature cursive.
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The article explores some of the benefits of cursive and handwriting: "After they got rid of handwriting, now they're all rediscovering it," Virginia Berninger, a retired University of Washington professor who has conducted research on the ways children learn when using print or script.
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The postcard, handwritten in cursive, reads: Beware there is two women I want here they are bastards and I mean to have them my knife is still in good order it is a students knife and I hope you liked the half of kidney.
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" "Our world has indeed become increasingly dependent on technology, but how will our students ever know how to read a scripted font on a word document, or even sign the back of a check, if they never learn to read and write in cursive?
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Colorful sketches of flowers, an art lesson on perspective featuring trees with a fence, a calendar, and cursive writing from 1917 follow the discovery last June of chalkboard drawings from the same era, which all seem to be deliberately covered as a time capsule.
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The singer's manicurist showed off the latest Chanel-inspired nail art on Instagram Thursday, but all fans could notice was how the Saturday Night Live star's first name was tattooed across Grande's left-hand ring finger in cursive — just above her $93,000, 3-carat engagement ring.
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Connie Britton wore one of their tops reading "Poverty is Sexist" in cursive lettering on the 2018 Golden Globes red carpet as a way to show their support of the Time's Up movement – a decision which her stylist Erica Cloud told PeopleStyle was all Britton's idea.
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She then tweeted a photo of the tattoo on her forearm that reads in cursive text, "My story isn't over yet," later posting a sweet photo of her daughter Novalee's favorite toy to Instagram and writing that she would be taking it with her to treatment. pic.twitter.
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Doctor Woo, a celebrity favorite for his thin, dainty designs, reports that jewelry-inspired wrist ink is trending, while famed Shamrock Social Club's East Iz (the most delicate-minded artist from the trend-incubating shop) has been turning out single-needle flowers and delicate cursive names.
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But "unlike other card companies, American Express is doing away with signatures globally, instead of just in the U.S." In an era when a growing number of young people have no idea how to write in cursive, using a signature as proof of identity feels especially passé.
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It's fitting that Kasher is in a reflective mood, as the band is reissuing the first two Cursive albums—1997's Such Blind Stars for Starving Eyes and 1998's The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song—on their own label, 15 Passenger Records, this Friday.
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"MY MOTHERLAND is the Soviet Union," reads a sentence written in cursive script in one of the exercise books scattered on the floor of an abandoned school in Pripyat, a Soviet ghost town next to the Chernobyl nuclear power station, which blew up on April 26th 1986.
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The owner of the property, Jason Badger, on Friday prodded through a left-behind satchel of ammunition — fit for rifle, shotgun and handgun — and discarded garbage bags holding crumpled grade-school textbooks and journals lined with notes in neat cursive and the primitive doodles of children.
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Accompanying a piano refrain uncannily reminiscent of Jewel's "Foolish Games", the cursive opening titles set against the sight of a secluded country estate suggest a tongue planted firmly in cheek (though it is planted upon a great range of orifices over the course of the film).
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The top fifth of Wölfli's circa 1916 colored-pencil drawing is covered in the curious points and loops of old German cursive, but the rest, filled with roads, color wheels, crosses and masked angels, is like a cutaway cross-section of the view under New Jerusalem.
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They usually center on students being able to read the Constitution and Declaration of Independence (which were originally written in copperplate script, and are hard to decipher even for people who studied cursive in school) or on developing fine motor skills, which can also be cultivated in other ways.
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With polemicists lamenting that cursive is going the way of the dodo and old-school devotees of pen and paper posting their work on social media with hashtags like #snailmail and #penpal, this exhibition at the Morgan might seem at first glance to be part of this nostalgia.
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For the other two, I like to choose a large, gulp-able beverage — like Gatorade or, if I am feeling brave, seltzer — as well as a fancy, small beverage, like a blood orange San Pellegrino or one of those high-end lemonades with cursive lettering on the bottle.
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Another closet makes the less exciting essentials — like manuals, soap and sunscreen — look photo-worthy courtesy of opaque fronts and a dash of Shearer's signature hand-written cursive labeling Although she may not be a minimalist in 2018, Conrad will at least have fun and functional ways to support her stash.
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The Oscar-winning actor got the names of his four daughters, Alexia, Isabella, Gia and Stella, tattooed in fine line cursive on his right upper arm, from Los Angeles-based tattoo artist Daniel Winter (a favorite of stars like Sophie Turner, Joe Jonas, Lady Gaga, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen).
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Johnson & Johnson Innovation, the forward-thinking wing of the cursive font conglomerate, is apparently on the lookout for technology ideas aligned with the company's focus on categories like skin care, baby care, oral care and feminine care, teaming up with HAX to provide startups with the means to develop their products.
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"A handwriting comparison of the bottle message signed by the captain and Paula's Meteorological Journal shows the handwriting is identical in terms of cursive style, slant, font, spacing, stroke emphasis, capitalization and numbering style," Ross Anderson, the assistant curator of Maritime Archaeology at the Western Australia Museum, said in a statement.
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But the campaign proved so popular that every summer, the yellow cans, with their old-timey ship icon and quaint cursive lettering, return, and likely will in perpetuity, for as long as Jaws has an anniversary, or until waters rise and we're all swallowed, beer cans in hand, by the sea.
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The acquisition is unsurprising given that Bowie was a huge Basquiat fan — a fact easily gleaned from his delightful description of Basquiat's work in a spring 1986 issue of Modern Painters, where he often contributed interviews with artists: Basquiat takes a cursive swipe and re-establishes the disorder that is reality.
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In modern, or perhaps non-secular times, history shall remember this: J Hus in front of a stained glass window, his arms aloft, Dave writing a scripture, his form of cursive resembling the great 17th-century novelists and philosophers, who also wrote in leather bound books on deep wood grain tables.
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The chalkboards in painstaking cursive that misspell half the menu; the sad frites and scrawny mussels and refrigerated cheeses; the old-guard dishes put through modern contortions until they end up looking like Gérard Depardieu wearing Jeggings — we put up with these signs of forgery because we want the real thing so badly.
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But that was who she had in mind when she apologized—not her sister or her nephews, though they were there, watching in a morose semicircle as she executed the words in her looping cursive; and not Charlotte, who would be terribly upset but whose ebullient toughness would carry her right through.
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It is not merely that for a fine spring collection Mr. Snyder sent out shirts emblazoned with a jaunty cursive "Snyder's" logo — an idea brought to him by Jim Moore, the longtime fashion director of GQ, who styled the show and who had been inspired by a supermarket remembered from his Minneapolis boyhood.
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The manila folder was filled with historical papers as fragile as tuile cookies: 1908 newspaper clippings, an architectural diagram of a mine crosscut from multiple perspectives and a page translucent with age covered in Italian cursive that came with a translated document that revealed this to be a widow's description of her husband.
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That cursive will say "Watermelon Donut Buttfart Dingo" until someone burns the page, and Mo will play like Mo until his body breaks and dissolves into the river of time, only to live once more when humankind takes a sip of the river and remembers what he did on that good wood.
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And if writing all of your office memos by hand for a day feels too daunting, I have a tip: If you're on a Mac, you can still vex your colleagues by changing the font of all your emails to "Brush Script," a cursive typography that, like most of our handwriting, is largely inscrutable.
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The reality star's body art is the phonetic spelling of sanity done in red ink, while Hailey's is the word "gente" written in a cursive script, which is the Portuguese word for people, ostensibly meant as a tribute to her Brazilian heritage as well as a matching tattoo she got with her model friend, Mari Mckinney.
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One such woman was activist Emma Watson, who attended last night's Vanity Fair Oscars party with a (likely) temporary tattoo of cursive script that read, "TIMES UP." But rather than focus on the important message emblazoned across her forearm, Twitter's self-appointed grammar police zero-ed in on something they deemed much more important: the phrase's lack of apostrophe.
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" Not long after she tweeted about seeking treatment, Baltierra shared a photo of the tattoo on her forearm that reads in cursive text, "My story isn't over yet;" The star received the support of her husband, who tweeted, "Incredibly proud of my wife…when she thought she had no choices left, she reached out & decided to LIVE today!
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Alabama Law Aims to Keep Cursive in Schools" Hannah Gonzalez on "Mortal to Divine and Back: India's Transgender Goddesses" Eric Lee on "Instagram Takes a Page From Snapchat, and Takes Aim at It, Too" Lucas Mann on "Today's Students May Be Emotionally Unprepared" Meredith BHSAP2016 on "What's the Right Age for a Child to Get a Smartphone?
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After nearly a year of arguments, the exhibition — which also included a painting of the Virgin Mary cradling a monkey, and sacramental wafers with words like "vagina" and "penis" written on them in neat cursive — reopened this month in Parque Lage, a public park in Rio de Janeiro that is also home to a renowned art school.
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Buchinger barnstormed fairs, inns, and courts in Germany, France, England, and Ireland in the early eighteenth century, exhibiting his skills as a calligrapher who specialized in micrography: drawing with lines of infinitesimal text, such that a normal-looking head of hair might turn out, on close inspection, to transcribe in swirling cursive a chapter of the Bible.
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One for each of her daughters, another on her foot, an illustration from her book This Will Only Hurt A Little (which takes on a whole new meaning when you add the tattoo into the mix), as well as cursive on her left arm which reads, "Aced out in her nudes," another reference to her autobiography.
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The work resonates in Mely Barragán's soft sculpture which spells out the word "Macho" in filigree cursive and captures both the quotidian absurdity of daily gender inequity and the banality and redundancy of calling out the machismo of Mexican culture, as though it were only ensconced within that particular national imaginary and not an international point of concern and contention.
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In our younger years, there used to be four definitive camps of "memorabilia" jewelry we had to have: matching BFF necklaces (often in the form of cheap metal chains and puzzle piece hearts), customizable link charm bracelets (or if you were fancier, customizable tennis bracelets), nameplate necklaces (written in cursive, duh), and vintage looking lockets — before we even knew we liked vintage.
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