What Makes Your Handwriting Messy?

[@redesignuxui]

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[@Nyxcore]

i cant even join

[@callyral]

i wanna write in comic sans, but my hands prefer writing in خط غريب

[@MethDealer5916]

أنا متأكد إنك مبتتكلمش عربي

[@microska2656]

@@MethDealer5916 لول

[@bunziix]

me but I can’t even write or read arabic

[@cats404]

writing in comic sans is such a genius idea i love you for it

[@Jojo-y9l]

ليه يعني😂​@@MethDealer5916

[@Boo-se7wi]

Didn't expect a "your mother" in this video

[@redesignuxui]

your MOTHER

[@TheEndOfHatsuneMiku]

@@redesignuxuiat least you didn’t say “ur mom”

[@Mothxcat]

Doin your mom

[@emanue2ls]

Or any else's mom 🥶

[@Blackoutfor10days]

Mom jokes

[@scrible1073]

I got doctors handwriting because i accidentally made a hybrid hand-writing by mixing normal and cursive writing😅 Still readable, by some amount

[@UpleenSandhu]

I þought I was þe only one who does þat. Yeah my handwriting gets worse when you include Þ into þe equation. And I am a psycho who does negative spacing and þe ligature þing quite a lot so my handwriting sometimes looks somewhat legible and oþer times looks like I invented a new Language (DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON SLANTING)

[@UpleenSandhu]

Which is probably why my Punjabi handwriting is better þan my English. Cursive doesnt really exist in Punjabi (combine þat wiþ þe fact þat I am not great at it) and you get nice and organized hand writing but in English, HAGSMIRE IS COMING HOSER

[@yourboy_BillCipher]

fr esp when im rushing an essay, i dont know how examiners read or mark that 😭

[@koimananana]

Hybrid cursive gang???

[@UpleenSandhu]

@@koimananana so þat is what our handwriting style is called? TIME TO RUN IT TO OTTAWA AND BACK HOSERS

[@Czekytcze]

It's honestly art to have messy handwriting. It's really interesting to look at

[@Breastmilkchugger]

Agree, neat handwriting is everywhere, it's so boring

[@mikagesdiary]

i feel comforted after reading this 🙏🙏

[@Hackerisitic]

Interesting as in a case study for typographists. Right? Cause no I am not reading pages and pages of someone handwriting that is barely legible on top of being dyslexic.

[@waffleisnice]

Aesthetically yes? Academically no. As somwone that have bad handwriting, both on paper and screen i can barely read mine and I have to write it again to make it readable esp in exams

[@RaccoonCityPoliceDept]

Call it what you want, doesn't change that the messier it is, the longer you have to look to get an idea of what you're even looking at.

[@casperdewith]

The whole premise of this video is wrong. The concepts of serifs (0:33), kerning (1:26), overhang (5:08), and ligatures (7:55) are only relevant in typesetting. So how could you possibly use them to improve your handwriting? 1:26 No - that’s tracking. Kerning is the tiny adjustments that you need to make to the default tracking for individual letter pairs. 2:01 This image is so wrong, and on top of that, it’s not even what you said. (Look at the ‘kerning’ arrow.) 7:04 No, no, no. Only with calligraphic pens. You can write in cursive with a ballpoint pen just fine, nothing ‘overwhelming’ (7:50). 8:28 How is this whole section relevant? 9:00 This is a lovely, readable handwriting. What’s bad about it? That it doesn’t look as if a computer typeset it? 9:22 The weight of a ‘c’, the proportion of an ‘e’? Terrible video. A combination of ten Google searches, by only looking at the first suggested answer.

[@sheepcommander_]

yep

[@kylezdancewicz7346]

This video is at best a very bad introduction to the different parts of fonts.

[@andreea-mgh]

Thanks, I'm 2 minutes in and this feels written by GPT...

[@kashyaptandel4678]

What about cursive

[@casperdewith]

@@andreea-mgh Same.

[@AdezkEatsChargerBlocks]

my handwriting is in 800 million different fonts.

[@casperdewith]

Ah, Wingdings.

[@vippinv]

Fr

[@dragonballlegends3050]

Also me who uses the cursive 's' and normal 's' alternatively in the same sentence

[@Josuh]

@@dragonballlegends3050 that's diabolical

[@dragonballlegends3050]

@@Josuh the thing is my teacher don't even seem to notice that

[@Strawberry_.pancakes.]

My handwriting’s font is ExtremelyUgly Sans

[@marinacosta8835]

What a coincidence! So is mine!

[@JustGolight]

So true

[@panchublanky]

We all have smt in common

[@Ninguémimportante-d2h]

My handwriting is a goddam hybrid (it keeps changing size, it keeps changing between cursive and some strange thing I don't know how to call, it's crazy)

[@fiinut_butter]

Same here. My handwriting would have a good start, all neat and stuff. Then it becomes something like a chicken committed a writing crime and before I knew it, my page is all jacked up. I would have scratches of ink and scribbles with arrows pointing to where everything fails into place. That, or my handwriting speed just can't catch up with how fast I process auditory info and how I monologue in my head. Lol

[@Ninguémimportante-d2h]

@fiinut_butter thanks for describing me

[@HandyK902_]

Same with mine, Every time I write with my pen it just changes the original font

[@fiinut_butter]

@@HandyK902_ Real

[@Aztnt]

Same here

[@alexvysokai3667]

I just found a perfect way to describe my handwriting, "a landfill of ink"... Everyone tells me I have doctor handwriting, but I'm not a doctor so landfill of ink fits way better.

[@mikedrxp]

I cant decide if your Voice is real or AI

[@pułkownikkaczodziobyzpodlasia]

She has the perfect robo voice lol, it sounds real enough to me tho

[@mqxogames]

It's definitely real but her inflections feel AI ish

[@rahileshanbi5551]

She sounds very real to me and her laugh is enough proof.

[@joshfueled]

welcome to the future

[@BlackbeltHitoshi]

She sounds like Emily from class of '09.

[@Fulaankhan]

I mean, yeah this video answered why my notes are always dirty and i'll be able to make clean notes from now on, in sha Allah

[@44Hd22]

I have all letters in words connected. It’s a handwriting from elementary school and only some capital letters aren’t connected to the word. I also realised that people either can read my handwriting easily or they can't at all or can just barely. People who can read my handwriting easily are people who also use more complex handwriting. There’s like two ways I know of that people read handwriting. The way with directional changes and requirements each letter fulfills and the way that looks at the way how the pen was moved (in the way that m can look like a w or something). There’s is still a lot more to handwriting and writing by hand with all letters being disconnected is way slower and it’s easy to read once you learn a second handwriting.

[@beccasflyingrainbow7886]

Right when you said “the trickiest part of them all” a ad appeared 5:10

[@haumenic]

The trickiest part of of it all- *ONLY 0.0000000000001% OF PEOPLE CAN BEAT THIS!!!*

[@sblowes]

None of this applies to handwriting. It’s all typeface terminology.

[@koimananana]

But typeface comes from handwriting, and yes people has different handwriting that this may be not be relevant to your handwriting

[@sblowes]

@@koimananana​​⁠ Serif’s aren’t used in handwriting because then it would be calligraphy. But even the typographical terminology in this video is incorrect; kerning isn’t letter-spacing, as depicted here. Kerning is how tightly individual glyphs (letters, usually) nestle into their neighbors. It’s okay to call out incorrect information.

[@eglol]

This video was very confusing for me to watch. Anyway, I appreciate that you explained your thoughts on this and called some of it out. The original comment didn't give very much information

[@thesquirrelyway49]

Did you watch the video? The only part that really isn't applicable to handwriting is serifs. All of the terminology is also used for discussing handwriting

[@joe_z]

2:29 I feel like your example of "too wide" spacing might need to be exaggerated a little more. That looks perfectly comfortable to me.

[@JoRoBoYo]

Neat handwriting is physically painful to my hand

[@Some_Where_On_Venus]

My handwriting never stays the same 😭 one line i’ll write more blocky letters then other more rounded and then sometimes they’re my type of cursive (it’s just letters randomly connected) Edit: 5:03 stop i do this with all my letters- not just y’s either

[@VidushYuhansa]

0:40 Well played😉.

[@KarenTondro]

My math teacher told me this after grading my test: "in my 24 years of teaching and grading, your exam paper was the hardest to grade" 💀

[@FoxyCS_]

I thought that said "Messi" 😭

[@teriiyaki_god]

Write in really small cursive to cover up all my errors and get away with not finishing words

[@MaxwellCatAlphonk]

Cursive cyrillic handwriting feels like looking at asemic writing to those who don't know much about cureive cyrillic handwriting at all

[@SpaghettiDog86.]

no way youtube added blue comments

[@somnvm37]

idk, interestinly i think the way I write cursive english influenced the way I write cursive russian and ukrainian, and the latter 2 influenced the english

[@ireallydontknow-h7c]

The best way to improve your handwriting is that put your lower case letters in words in the same lane, your writing will look much more cleaner. And while writing paragraphs, leave some space. And maybe check out other fonts, i used to write in cursive and my writing was that of a 5th grader but then i chose to write normally like in this font and after some weeks of practice i got hang of it and now i have the best writing in my school and even got a award for it. Always remember that color theory actually works for writing too, like while writing my papers, i take a thin calligraphy dark blue marker which is also cut to give the cool effect writing and i use it for headings and topics, meanwhile for writing questions i use the same color marker but one which is more thinner and not cut. And for answers, i use a very thin like very thin ball point/ gel pen which is also blue, now this blue is more lighter than the markers and for the diagrams, i use black gel pen and pencil for shading trust me, shading makes every diagram 10000x more better try it.

[@lucasvlogs4056]

Best advice is to make sure your letters are closed. Letters like a b d o p g and so on should be air tight. That alone improved my handwriting so much!

[@destrodevil6975]

some of my classmates' handwriting looks straight out of a horror movie

[@somnvm37]

I feel like one of the better ways to space things is to have small spacing between letters and somewhat large spacing between words, and for elines idk tbh.

[@cmyk8964]

Kerning is the adjustment of space between two problematic glyphs like "LT" and "aj". Tracking is the overall space between all letters throughout a line of text. Disliked for spreading incorrect information.

[@lennoxwilliamsart7387]

Afterr an injury I have not real handwriting anymore XD I can write 5 words and it looks like written by 5 people. At least my writing cannot be tracked that way XD

[@subgivtara]

so you have a different signature every time?

[@lennoxwilliamsart7387]

@@subgivtara In fact originally yes. I forced myself to stick to one. It looks different every time, but you can see it's the same person

[@lilcaps]

Sans serif means without serifs in french

[@eclipse_eternal8178]

I have different handwriting depending on my emotional state, normally it's just messy, if I'm really anxious or excited it gets even worse however, if I'm way too emotional or overwhelmed or i kind of shut down it tends to get really neat and uniform. Weird huh. Literally I can tell what kind of state I was in by looking at how I wrote at that time, the neat one looks so different from my normal one.

[@mqxogames]

I cant stand sitting through a full video because of the second quiet song in the background that i noticed at some point, its SO aggravating because the content of the video is great but that background is shocking

[@Mr.Saturn0]

My font is like an enchantment table, not readable and messy, because my thoughts are so fast, my hands can't keep up sometimes squishing two words together into one

[@DaHitch]

What do you call it when the spacing between each letter, each word and each line is different every time? 🤔 Asking for a friend.

[@Nezumi--]

i mean my guess is my writing is messy coz i am a hypermobile adhd lefthander so every single word looks like a different person wrote it >u< but sure, these are also valid.

[@janftacnik1207]

As a hypermobile adhd left handed I feel this

[@CobaltTS]

The title of this video made me think it was going to be about what causes handwriting to be messy, possibly how to fix it, and maybe some stuff about forensic handwriting analysis. I think a more appropriate title would be more like "How much do typeface terms apply to handwriting?" I think some of the other comments are a bit harsh, but I would also prefer less random gifs. It frequently derailed your points

[@shadyshyguy4058]

Highscool, highscool(especially litelature and history classes) made my handwriting messy. I remember I just could not finish tests in time, so I had to start writing faster to finish the tests, whitch made my hadwriting messy.

[@AnthonyWasiukiewicz]

Anxious. Messy. Calm. Neat.

[@DocDock_]

“APPLE” screamed in a very fancy tone

[@Jaiahshau]

I recently found out that the reason my handwriting is so messy and notoriously bad is because my brain tends to generate words faster that sometimes my fingers cant keep up. Occasionally, when I write essays there would be missing words because I thought that I have already written them down. I remember my english teacher scolding me about my bad handwriting and because of it I almost failed my 3rd grade english class. 😂

[@gohansolo1980]

The part about size of lowercase letters was x-heighting.

[@Zandex0]

imo the difference between messy and neat handwriting is how consistent your letters are

[@andrewbouse8968]

Jokes on you, my spacing is wildly inconsistent! One word might be all spaced out and stuff, then the next might be slightly overlapping. Not even I can figure out a pattern in it!

[@WildPotaot2]

This is a high quality video Please do more and have some breaks in between^^

[@error.101]

Watching this video was like watching somone look at my handwriting and go step-by-step to tell me about all the things wrong with it that are making it hard to read.

[@Imtitled]

Now the real question is "What will make your handwriting Ronaldo"

[@speedcookie]

My hand wiring is so bad it's basically hieroglyphics. So let's see how this video helps

[@cbbcbb6803]

For me, it us how I position the writing surface and the writing implement. Bad positioning, bad penmanship. Congenital positioning, readable penmanship. I do not like italics because it is pretty but always hard for me to read.

[@bobanmilisavljevic7857]

People say my writing is reminiscent of wingdings font

[@Raadicality]

As a Science(Mainly Physics) student, I just need it to be readable.

[@aaaaaaaaaiguess]

does writing lowercase t like a capital T but shorter really matter? because I do it.

[@koimananana]

My teacher kills me for doing this, which... i just remedied with a modified cursive which mades it... worse??

[@aaaaaaaaaiguess]

bro i have lignatures like TH, DZ, DJ and more. absolutely unreadable.

[@rockruff7203]

I have a unique-ish handwriting that i call "Semi-Cursive". I write the letters with a connecting line like cursive but with normal non cursive letters lol

[@boboshooters]

well, i write in the middle of the lines🤣

[@maxmaximum-sh4bx]

*Appealing* not Appealmg. 👮‍♂️💂‍♂️

[@srimoyee90210]

My writing speed is high and it changes as per the pen or pencil used anyways. Doesn’t bother me

[@pauline_f328]

My aunt has doctor-type handwriting. I've gotten better at reading it, but even with her making an effort to write neatly I have to guess about one word out of four or five 😭 And that's with her making an effort 😭😭😭 Mine on the other hand...Well, I used to draft my stories by hand, AND I draft really slowly in the first place, so I took the habit of writing very neatly. I often get compliments about it when people see me write We couldn't be more different in that apsect haha Edit: There are two cases in which my handwriting can get messy. I write on the smaller and tighter end, so my gs and ys tend to hang down into the letters below, which can make it messy when right under them is an h or an l or something. Also I'm forced to write rather slowly, otherwise it gets VERY messy (this also happens when I try to write while my hand hurts. Makes it harder to draw letters properly, and I start going a little cursive and spacing my letters a bunch and making them larger. It's not a good combinasion lol) Doesn't happen often though. And for the letters that hang down, I'll often go over that bit by slanting the l underneath or something to make things more legible

[@chrisk6637]

My kerning is all over the place like in the first letter will be narrow then wide then inside the next ketter the the letter will be flying then wide again then some combonation then narrow then inside eachother like i can't even read what im writing sometimes

[@zek1405]

whats the background song?

[@ishanazir4734]

My flaw is that I'm not consistent

[@free_diddy2]

i don't even care anymore bro i just write the first and last letter of the word i want to write and just scribble the rest in and pray that my brain somehow manages to decrypt ts by the time i want to read my notes

[@yruherelmao]

I'm already self consious about everything else, now my HANDWRITING??? Give me a break.

[@oxidine2968]

my kerning for i and l: W I D E my kerning for everything else: keming

[@EnzoGabriel8-n7i]

0:06 *Michel theme starts playing*

[@SimpdePaint]

My handwritting is combining different writting scripts

[@gendo1123]

My baseline is nonlinear

[@drinklette]

my handwriting is messy cause the lessons go by too quickly 💢💢

[@XxXNightcoreQueenXxXV2]

My handwriting is the unholy love child of Dyslexia, Cursive, Typewriting, and having to take quick notes during lectures. This means, for example, that I will have two different E's and the like, depending on what I'm trying to get down. It will be horribly misspelled and hurriedly put on paper in whatever manner and whatever space I got to write things on.

[@coolerpieceofbeef]

As someone who uses serif fonts daily, I find the first part very untrue (i only use them for the x variable in math)

[@kyubihote]

Is the soundtrack of the intro from infinite warfare multiplayer menu theme?

[@maybeyou1603]

4:45 I write like that😅 it's cute that's why I do it. But all of my friends say my handwriting is neat and unique because all my lowercase and uppercase are same high and size

[@Adam-4202-j3v]

7:58 How *ß* gets invented (long s+z

[@cyka6blat989]

And no inspiration from “β”?

[@JohnMark-ek9re]

No wonder why my hand speaks/moves in German-alike, Russian-alike and Japanese-alike

[@BlitzBrawler]

0:07 Vsauce theme starts playing

[@tempehph3364]

how do i get away w cursive using a ballpen

[@LEO19495]

Im left handed and my hands are shaky so double whammy on my handwriting

[@BlxePyxle]

If your handwriting is messy, that means you’re so smart that your brain thinks faster than what you’re writing

[@koimananana]

Theres no definite proof of this, but people always have different style of writing like how they like their pens

[@sudokuacrobatics]

Tell that go my classmates... "Utkinam no, isang kang gago na anak... Na bagsak sa lahat!!! At pagit yung Handwriting mo! Hindi ka ang anak ko! Labas!!!"

[@BlxePyxle]

@ oh ok thx for info 👍

[@chrisk6637]

Im definitely NOT smart and yet my handwriting is messier than a 5year olds art class drawings

[@SynthRockViking]

Woah, overhang? 😵

[@Dariel77Angel]

My handwriting is bad... For the sake of clarity I now write capital R as typed here for ALL rs in my writing, needing capitalisation or not.

[@qtgaming6902]

this video: Soo what font is your hand writing? me: Yes

[@Monkeymario.]

3:39 Not mine I kinda write in small caps

[@kelbopple]

Sm *all caps* ?

[@chillychick-100]

I let MyFonts analyze my handwriting and it gave me Atlantide Décor font as the first option😅😂

[@Iliumy]

I write in comic sans, and i absolutely hate it.

[@jacobhdz127]

I can’t tell if “appealmg” was on purpose or not

[@logi-a]

This video just insulted my hand writing in 1000 different fonts 😭

[@ToastTheHost7869]

Underrated

[@yeeteducation]

My handwriting is in comic sans

[@DaviUndertale]

goated

[@wikt0r3]

why my handwriting is messy? im lefthanded

[@1van1sh0t]

My handwriting violates all of these principles and looks likes it was written by a 3rd grader And I’m 18 😭😭😭

[@shad0w798]

As nice as this all is this fails to help how my letters don’t look like hieroglyphs as my letters look like shit like I can’t do a capital G or how my a’s look like a u because I don’t connect the top somehow

[@edrianpascual9157]

My notes are in cursive (Russian doctor edition)

[@romaintahiti2515]

My handwriting is so bad my friends call me the echanting table My teachers were trying to get le to seeing a doctor they litteraly begged me to bring a computer and they gave me some circle the answer test while everybody had the write an essay😂

[@nazuaFz]

messy looks comfy

[@Αίφοσ]

oh goodness now i know why i have doctor handwriting thanks

[@Eleora1997Msia]

When i was young, teachers and parents alike, scolded at my handwriting is a cursed from God and disrespectful to the readers eyes. Today , i found myself , i am not cursed, i blessed people to health. I work in hospital as a physiotherapist. With my cursed handwriting i less used it, most of my report is in computer, also... Spelling error in it due to type too fast. (Example; Heal > fast typo > hell) 😅

[@sillysnowboot]

My problem was baseline

[@muajbinkarim]

i feel like its targeted to me

[@redesignuxui]

targeted towards me too haha

[@muajbinkarim]

@@redesignuxui welp I can see where you got the inspiration to make this video

[@BeastyJay1234]

My hand writing is terrible here’s a sneak peek of my hand writing 📝

[@koimananana]

I use a weird modified cursive style, thats probably why it is bad

[@reddragon4176]

My handwriting looks messy because I'm a moron who writes: a like o, g like y, h like n, r like v. and occasionally swapping b and d.

[@vermamaerodriguez96]

it's when it's messy

[@yakari_68]

casually insults mothers when explaining serifs is such banger