What is Spencerian script and Palmer method?

By the 1800s, the ornate round hand scripts were simplified into the Spencerian script in the U.S. Platt Rogers Spencer, an educator wanted children to develop legible handwriting. His handwriting guides became bestsellers in the 1800s, when business schools bought them. The Spencerian script (named after him) is the first truly American handwriting. It does have flourishes, particularly in the loops of capital letters, but it is mostly a simple cursive handwriting with the letters less rounded and more lean. Check out the Coca-Cola and the Ford logo! They are written in Spencerian script.

In the late 1800s, one Austin Palmer developed a handwriting system, even while the typewriters were being used extensively to record messages. His script, called the Palmer method, had fewer flourishes than Spencerian script, even on the capital letters. The little swirls you see in the Coca-Cola/Ford logos were removed. But Palmer eventually lost out, and the cursive handwriting stayed.

 

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