Felt as if I was drowning in excessive descriptions, but its core mirrors my melancholy thoughts about the declining value of penmanship.

From the site: “Filmotype Adonis [by Charles Gibbons] is one of the earliest casual handwritten scripts that was introduced by Filmotype in the early 1950s. It perfectly captures the mid-century playfulness of hand lettering while providing comfortable readability. Filmotype Adonis was developed from the original font filmstrips and includes a full international character compliment, automatic fractionals, ordinals, and a host of alternate characters in dynamic OpenType format.”

You might think that the best penmanship would involve excellent finger control over the pen, but your fingers actually don't help you write better—they can make your handwriting worse. Dyas A. Lawson, creator of pen, paper, and writing site PaperPenalia, explains the difference between writing with your fingers and using your shoulders, and why using your shoulders is better: More »

MyScriptFont is a site that allows you to turn your own handwriting into a computer font. It's very easy to use. You download the template, print it, and then fill it out in your own handwriting. Then scan the completed template and upload the image file back to the site and it will create the font for you.

It's easy to use and having a font in your own handwriting can be both fun, and creative.