What 'font' has a propper 'a' and is good for reading?

[StarOfValkyrie]

tia

Oooh, Penmanship looks like it could do the trick thank you thumbwitch. Who'd have thought this could be so complicated!?

No probs, Star - you can thank Bonsoir for leading me in the right search direction though!

Berlin Sans, as I think someone else has already suggested, isn't bad either...

I like century gothic.

Hi Star

Lexia?

Oooh, that's an interesting one lougle thanks.

I'm just hoping that by the time DD (3) goes to school in three years' time, she'll be learning to write in Czech like this this:

rather than this copperplate, which is what they currently learn from the get-go (no printing at all).

The first one is being trialled cautiously in schools, but there's a raging debate, needless to say... various psychologists queuing up to say their fine motor skills and thus their entire brains will suffer if they don't spend two years of their lives learning copperplate in painstaking detail. (And that they won't be able to read letters from their grandparents).

English is up to me, thank god - bog-standard phonics-books fonts and Comic sans (thanks for the links - I can't find Modern in my Open Office, but I think I need a newer version of OO anyway).

(Of course, I was desperate to be able to write copperplate when I was about 8/9, and used to spend ages teaching myself, but what I did in my own time was up to me ).

p.s. I know the technical name for it isn't copperplate - anyone know what it is? They're made to do all the loops on the capital letters, too.

We use comic sans for everything as it is the most dyslexia friendly one.

Sassoon's the school-standard one but you have to pay for it. That's why a lot of the time people use Comic Sans (aka "source of all known evil") even though it's not got the curved bottoms of t's (I just draw them on afterwards with black pen if really pushed).

Freeware wise...

Primer Apples is a dotted tracing version of a font very similar to Sassoon. www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/Primer_Apples.htm

The un-dotted version again has the T problem that Comic Sans (eww) has
desktoppub.about.com/od/lessonplans/ig/Free-Print---Cursive-Fonts/Primer-Print.htm

I' m a closet font-aholic myself.

Vesela - I think you mean cursive handwriting.

French children learn cursive. I am all for it, myself - French people generally have very fast and legible handwriting.

You want bookman, italiced

At my school we use Century Gothic... it doesn't have the curly t but is clear and easy to read.

If you want to teach your daughter to read why not just hand write the letters?

Bonsoir - I was wondering how to describe the extra-loopiness of this particular style of cursive.

Looking at French cursive, it seems fairly like Czech, though - maybe slightly rounder - whereas German school cursives (e.g. in the link above) seem simpler, especially the capitals.

One of the reasons put forward for changing to the new script is the difficulties that Czechs apparently encounter with the legibility of their handwriting abroad (unless they've customised it, as frequently happens - children spend their first two years at school learning how to write like this, and then no one really minds whether they stick to it!). The small t in particular is very hard to read - the crossbar is practically on the ground.

All French handwriting is the same though, regardless of the age of the writer.

Legible maybe but boring

bump for Butterpie

a friend just suggested this one

ooh that's good. I like the name

I've spent hours online trying to find the perfect font for a Gr 1 book. Try this one. TeachersPet included in the link. drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxz2krdirdC9NDVINkZKTHRtWDA/view

Ink journal (free download on the Windows site) is good.

And the dyslexic friendly lexia readable and sylexiad sans medium

Sassoon is the one used in schools. It's quite costly but appears to be free here - maybe a clone?

www.wfonts.com/font/sassoon

If this is known to be pirated hopefully admin will remove...

(I have checked and it seems to be OK!?)