[Viking2002]

Amen to that. Our brains are too wired to these keyboards now. I can still sign my name longhand with no problem, but if I have to do something like personalize a Christmas card, my writing looks like I have some sort of palsy, and it’s frustrating. What will people be doing a generation or two from now, leaving a biometric thumbprint to say, ‘Happy Birthday’? Scanning a barcode to see what the sender typed?

[rlmorel]

When I was a kid, I loved my dad's handwriting, and I tried to copy everything he did...including his handwriting. His block printing was so neat, legible, and cool looking to me that I completely gave up learning cursive in grade school and never used it again.

I have had a bunch of surgeries on my hands, and it got to the point I couldn't write more than a half a sentence before my hand began to cramp up and become claw-like, and the legibility of my once neat handwriting began to become nearly illegible.

I found a place that would make a font out of your handwriting (I think it cost about $100 15-20 years ago) and you filled out a form and sent it to them, and they would send you back a font!

I wrote one and printed one...can you tell which is which? (You probably can, but it is pretty damn close)

I rarely write anything by hand, and write all my letters and cards (yeah, I'm old school...I still write and mail things...probably a holdover from my military days where I used to write a dozen letters in a sitting) and I sent a card to a woman I used to correspond with when I was in the Navy, composing it with my font and printing it on the cards I make.

When I saw her, she remarked that she had forgotten how neat and tidy my hand writing was (this was 40 years after the fact...she still had my letters!) and was astonished when I told her it was a font that mimicked my handwriting...:)

That's the giveaway-it is a little too level and even, but the characters are faithful!