Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive ...

From my perspective, there’s almost nothing more thrilling than learning to use a new writing system. You’re gaining access to a whole secret code that many others cannot penetrate. The romance of ...

Spencerian cursive was the preferred writing style of clerks in the U.S. government. Here are 12 examples of handwriting so perfect it could be a font. Spencerian cursive was replaced in 1890 by a ...

(What ever happened to cursive writing?) “We think that our results can be partly explained by how handwriting activates different pathways to the same concept,” says Robert Wiley, a professor ...

Please verify your email address. The Gothic genre employs themes of degradation, horror, emotionalism over objectivity, and the supernatural to elicit wonder ...

Jacobsen then adorned part of it with calligraphy in the Gothic cursive style, the hand she was teaching at the conference. Her students received other smaller pieces. “It was a huge hit,” she ...

Gothic decor tends to be more serious and somber – often featuring hard surfaces and a cold color palette – whereas ...

Looking for the dark themes and creepy aesthetics of gothic anime? These series feature characters, storylines, and visuals ...

Gothic novels have been scaring us for 250 years ... and passages in code, mirror writing, musical notation and Braille.

The Gothic Revival was a conscious movement that began in England to revive medieval Gothic forms, from the second half of the 18th century and throughout the 19th century. The 18th century examples ...