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    Handwriting Exercises

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    This document provides 71 practice sheets for learning Spencerian script as shown in Plate 2 of the New Spencerian Compendium. Each sheet contains exercises to practice individual letters and principles based on grids and guidelines, moving from full grids to base lines only. The letter shapes were taken from a publicly available scan of Plate 2 and adjusted slightly as needed to align with the guidelines. Feedback is welcomed to improve the practice sheets.

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    Handwriting Exercises

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    This document provides 71 practice sheets for learning Spencerian script as shown in Plate 2 of the New Spencerian Compendium. Each sheet contains exercises to practice individual letters and principles based on grids and guidelines, moving from full grids to base lines only. The letter shapes were taken from a publicly available scan of Plate 2 and adjusted slightly as needed to align with the guidelines. Feedback is welcomed to improve the practice sheets.

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    This document provides 71 practice sheets for learning Spencerian script as shown in Plate 2 of the New Spencerian Compendium. Each sheet contains exercises to practice individual letters and principles based on grids and guidelines, moving from full grids to base lines only. The letter shapes were taken from a publicly available scan of Plate 2 and adjusted slightly as needed to align with the guidelines. Feedback is welcomed to improve the practice sheets.

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    284 views81 pages

    Handwriting Exercises

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    Zofia Berezowska
    This document provides 71 practice sheets for learning Spencerian script as shown in Plate 2 of the New Spencerian Compendium. Each sheet contains exercises to practice individual letters and principles based on grids and guidelines, moving from full grids to base lines only. The letter shapes were taken from a publicly available scan of Plate 2 and adjusted slightly as needed to align with the guidelines. Feedback is welcomed to improve the practice sheets.

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    New Spencerian Compendium Plate 2

    Practice Sheets

    September 8, 2016
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    About this Document


    Plate 2 of the New Spencerian Compendium is possibly one of the most detailed, complete, and repre-
    sentative exemplars of the Spencerian hand available today. The purpose of this document is to provide
    a set of worksheets to aid the practising of the plate’s contents. It takes each principle, letter, and figure
    and arranges these on a number of LATEX/TikZ-generated grids and guide lines, to form 71 dedicated
    practice sheets, each one consisting of four exercises:

    1. A full grid exercise

    2. An exercise on a simpler grid with only a base line, x-height line, ascender/descender heights, and
    one slant line per shape

    3. Exercise 2 repeated without slant lines or x-height line

    4. A final base line exercise, where ascenders and descenders overlap by one x-height

    In all exercises the x-height is 5mm. The letter width is 4.75mm, which was measured to be the
    plate’s average horizontal grid cell width relative to its x-height. The slant angle is 52◦ .
    A high-resolution scan of Plate 2 is publicly available here and was used, with kind permission of the
    owner, as the source of the letter shapes. Whenever present, the shapes of the right hand side of the
    plate were taken, otherwise the plate’s first half was turned to.
    To align each shape as accurately as possible with the grids and guide lines, some pixel-level image
    manipulations were necessary at times, such as a slight width or height adjustment, or an occasional
    clockwise rotation by a fraction of a degree. Some of the shapes needed a little bit more attention, for
    instance the First Principle stroke, which in the scan does not reach down to the base line. With the
    image editor’s clone stamp tool the stroke was given its correct length. Also, the Principle 4 ascender
    loop turned out not to start at the lower left corner of its leftmost grid cell. Its entry stroke was replaced
    by a Principle 2 stroke, to bring the shape more in line with the specific loop letters it supports. A
    second, descending Principle 4 worksheet was added by rotating the ascending one by 180◦ . Finally the
    long ‘s’, which is only depicted in the left half of the plate, proved virtually impossible to properly align.
    Therefore this letter was reconstructed by combining the ‘two’ Principle 4 shapes.
    In general however, the objective has been throughout the project to keep the shapes as authentic as
    possible. This also means that most imperfections were left untouched, like the small gap in the descender
    loop of the ‘f’. Should you feel though that a particular letter deviates too much from its original in any
    way, please feel free to contact me at this email address. Also when it concerns other aspects of the
    document, such as the setup of the exercises, missing elements, etc., your feedback would be greatly
    appreciated.

    Happy writing,

    Alexander van den Bosch


    PRINCIPLES
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    12
    SHORT LETTERS
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    SEMI-EXTENDED LETTERS
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    31
    EXTENDED OR LOOP LETTERS
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    STANDARD CAPITAL LETTERS
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    FIGURES
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