The Cursive Capital Q

[nq:1]This may be slightly off topic, forgive me. I was in my 3rd grader's class and saw a poster with ... Google search confirms this. Is the 'O' style a commom variant? Did it change and I just missed the memo?[/nq]
Web examples of how to form a "Q" in cursive show the "2" form. However, the "O with a tail" is commonly used in everyday writing. I would. I'd have to stop and think if I saw th

[nq:1]This may be slightly off topic, forgive me. I was in my 3rd grader's class and saw a poster with ... Google search confirms this. Is the 'O' style a commom variant? Did it change and I just missed the memo?[/nq]
I'd have to see these things to be sure, but I thought we used the first style in 1953. At the vary least, I think we should.

OTOH, my handwriting is so bad, I've printi

When you remember the capital Q looking like a 2, it's probably Palmer Cursive, which was the common handwriting taught to children for years and years. There are other fonts with this shape, but Palmer was ubiquitous!
Then there were no penmanship classes for quite a while.

Nowadays, Palmer is so old and irrelevant or whatever it's called and there are a couple new styles of handwrit

[nq:2]I'd have to see these things to be sure, but ... inclined to email me for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)[/nq]
[nq:1]When you remember the capital Q looking like a 2, it's probably Palmer Cursive, which was the common handwriting taught ... the closed Q, but is so far from Palmer that it really isn't even cursive! Here's a good overview:

[nq:1]Nowadays, Palmer is so old and irrelevant or whatever it's called and there are a couple new styles ... the closed Q, but is so far from Palmer that it really isn't even cursive! Here's a good overview: http://www.zanerbloser.com/[/nq]
I'm glad to hear they're not teaching Palmer in the US any more. (I hated it, esp

[nq:2]Nowadays, Palmer is so old and irrelevant or whatever ... it really isn't even cursive! Here's a good overview: http://www.zanerbloser.com/[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm glad to hear they're not teaching Palmer in the US any more. (I hated it, especially those stupid things ... page, I prefer Getty-Dubay. It looks a bit like the o

[nq:2]I'm glad to hear they're not teaching Palmer in the ... one I've been trying to use to improve my writing.[/nq]
[nq:1]Interesting. I looked at that page, and none of them are exactly what I learned in grade school (around 1966-68). ... and written out n the word lists, and we had to copy the cursive style. It rather makes me wonder.[/nq]
On closer examination, I think what they tried

[nq:2]This may be slightly off topic, forgive me. I was ... variant? Did it change and I just missed the memo?[/nq]
[nq:1]I'd have to see these things to be sure, but I thought we used the first style in 1953. At the vary least, I think we should.[/nq]
All characters vary between typefaces, and the more familiar one becomes with typography the more different they look no one could mistake

[nq:1]All characters vary between typefaces, and the more familiar one becomes with typography the more different they look no ... Bookman is, and its Q, although not looking like a 2, still deviates quite a lot from a basic Q.[/nq]
I presume you refer to ITC Bookman, with the large backward-pointing tail on its Q. A "cut" of the font that follows the original 1936 design more closely (Bitstre

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[nq:2]All characters vary between typefaces, and the more familiar one ... 2, still deviates quite a lot from a basic Q.[/nq]
[nq:1]I presume you refer to ITC Bookman, with the large backward-pointing tail on its Q. A "cut" of the font that follows the original 1936 design more closely (Bitstream's for example, or Monotype's Bookman Old Style) will have a quite modest and conve