Oddbean new post about login | logout See, I couldn’t zoom enough to see that. Boys do one-stroke hearts, girls do two so theirs are more symmetrical and ‘hearty’. Guys are often vertical and oblong in comparison. A lot of it just comes down to the patient, vertical, rounded arcs girls use in writing. Those just don’t come naturally. Look at a guy test a pen to see if it works, non-artisans will quickly do sawteeth, while girls will do leisurely loops like clouds
What do artisans do?
depends on how much training they got, but that’s one of those habits they train out of you when you work w/ illustration, drafting, etc. You do ‘stretches’ or pen exercises before you start working to get your muscles ready for work. They break you out of your habits and proclivities. Also nerds who work with writing utensils, you tend to develop habits around your tools, so guys accustomed to using crappy stuff that’s really stingy on ink flow probably end up being the types that leave tears in the paper or something, if I guessed. https://i.poastcdn.org/b121ebc266f7885d915a5dda9d4ae00ffadb2bbfe254d295b6aa00920eb844b0.png
you know, I really should do those too, being a self-proclaimed arteest and all But I always forget
they help a lot when you’re trying to break out of your routine. Then again I only did my stuff in physical media, IDK what’s up w/ digital, I don’t think any of it really applies all that much
@Springtime for Zeon (Woggy Mk II) @189979de @3422de8b I have male-coded handwriting what does that mean
I won’t tell you much off of that, the lines have blurred a LOT since the olden days when “men were men and women were women”. That’s why I’ve been saying the above could be the work of a broken, estrogeneous ‘man’. It is a little bit of personality, a little bit of how good your fine motor control is. I’ve noticed some kids are just developmentally “off”, and when they have a hard time cleaning up their writing strokes they have some funky nerve thing or were born a month or two premature. Only asked a couple times but hearing “yeah, how’d you know” is a little noteworthy. If you want to write like a girl you need to think about style, layout, put the way others will perceive your writing above all else. That’s why they’ll spend extra time putting the hearts over a lowercase ‘i’ and waste 3 strokes to make a small ‘w’ - they want others to look at it and think “oh cute” Guys are a world in their own mind, we don’t think about how it’ll look, we want to finish writing down the info as fast as we can so we can get back to doing whatever we were before we had to write.
@Springtime for Zeon (Woggy Mk II) @189979de @3422de8b women don't actually put hearts on top of their i's this isn't an 80s romcom
Speak for yourself, toots, have 2 exes who continued to do so into adulthood
I care a lot about style, but for purely autistic reasons. I am a typography snob and refuse to have anything to do with colored text. I refuse to use unlined paper and always pre-ruke it.
You’re missing out. I’ve always liked pure, unlined paper. It’s a challenge, you have to keep things straight and neat all on your own, with nothing to impede the additions of sketches & diagrams. It’s a good feeling when you finish a good, clean, handsome page on standard copy paper
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