I admire beautiful handwriting. I must say though, that I never, ever got the hang of cursive, even though I had to do it on that damned yellow paper with the alternating thick and thin-dashed lines. I had no coordination and just could not ever get it right. (This was back in the early Sixties)
However, I so admired my father’s handwriting...he was a naval officer, and his handwriting was strictly block capitals where the capital letters were a larger capital letter (Though he did write me one short note on memo paper in a form of cursive when I was in the Navy)
I loved that it was so clear, readable, and clean looking, that I began copying it and trying to mimic it exactly, which I eventually did.
A few years ago, I purchased a custom font, where you fill out a special form with your handwriting, and they email you the font...it is great! I used to write letters extensively, but after multiple surgeries on both hands, I can’t write more than a few lines before my hand starts to feel claw-like, and the legibility and neatness of the written words degrades to sloppy illegibility.
The font looks exactly like my handwriting (my style was well suited to a font) and when I sent a typed letter (with my handwriting font) to a woman who I wrote extensive letters to while in the USN, she answered back with a letter and told me that she had forgotten just how neat and clean my handwriting was! (I told her it was a font, but she did have trouble telling the difference)
I often think I might take a calligraphy course...:) I have enough coordination now!