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    A free online handwritten font?

    Hi.

    I have been trying to learn handwritten Russian as I have got the hang of reading text written Russian. I am finding it hard though with handrussian. 't' looks like 'm' !!!

    Anyway, is there a resource online that will allow me to type into handwritten Russian? Kind of like an online keyboard?

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    Re: A free online handwritten font?

    Quote Originally Posted by andrewsco
    Hi.

    I have been trying to learn handwritten Russian as I have got the hang of reading text written Russian. I am finding it hard though with handrussian. 't' looks like 'm' !!!

    Anyway, is there a resource online that will allow me to type into handwritten Russian? Kind of like an online keyboard?

    Thanks
    Andy
    Hmmmm... If you type in italic with most fonts the text looks a bit more like handwritten...

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    That's not what he means at ALL. He wants something that looks like a cursive/handwritten FONT, not font style.
    Заранее благодарю всех за исправление ошибок в моём русском.

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    Andrew - it's actually only a question of muscle memory

    Try this: find yourself a LOOOOOONG Russian text, and sit down and copy it (even if you haven't got a clue what it means ). Again and again. Not a couple of words, full text, text, text. Half an hour in the morning, half an hour in the evening.

    After a week you'll be writing cyrillic like it's the only thing you've ever done.
    Ой, голова у меня кружится |-P ...... and my brain hurts too....

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    Quote Originally Posted by BabaYaga
    Andrew - it's actually only a question of muscle memory

    Try this: find yourself a LOOOOOONG Russian text, and sit down and copy it (even if you haven't got a clue what it means ). Again and again. Not a couple of words, full text, text, text. Half an hour in the morning, half an hour in the evening.

    After a week you'll be writing cyrillic like it's the only thing you've ever done.
    Or his hands will fall off and he'll be a raving lunatic. It's a 50-50 chance really...

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    I don't see the need of a Russian cursive font.

    How hard can it be to learn Russian handwriting. I never remembered having any trouble.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TATY
    I don't see the need of a Russian cursive font.

    How hard can it be to learn Russian handwriting. I never remembered having any trouble.
    You are a super-genius polyglot. Some of us suck at languages.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barmaley
    That's not what he means at ALL. He wants something that looks like a cursive/handwritten FONT, not font style.
    Do you know any? I don't, but since he said he's having trouble with stuff like Ts looking like "m"s... changing the text into italic will help a bit to at least recognize the letters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by erika
    Quote Originally Posted by Barmaley
    That's not what he means at ALL. He wants something that looks like a cursive/handwritten FONT, not font style.
    Do you know any? I don't, but since he said he's having trouble with stuff like Ts looking like "m"s... changing the text into italic will help a bit to at least recognize the letters.
    Nope. If I did, I would have posted them here. I do know that they are available for English-language fonts, and presumably someone has created a Cyrillic one. That IS what the man asked for.
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    Ummmm Masterrussian.com has some fonts. Have you ever heard of them?

    http://www.cyrillic.com/ref/cyrillic/fontlist.html
    is the addy, I haven't tried them though, I'm curious how well they work.
    I'm easily amused late at night...

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    Quote Originally Posted by capecoddah
    Ummmm Masterrussian.com has some fonts. Have you ever heard of them?

    http://www.cyrillic.com/ref/cyrillic/fontlist.html
    is the addy, I haven't tried them though, I'm curious how well they work.
    Nope. Never knew this existed. But now that I do, does this satisfy OP?:
    http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepage ... ukursv.zip

    Technically that's a Bulgarian font, but others work fine for Russian on that page...?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lampada
    this one is really good. reminded me my first grade at school. yes, start with page 5, don't bother with all the little houses and other pictures.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barmaley

    Or his hands will fall off and he'll be a raving lunatic. It's a 50-50 chance really...

    Well, I only got 50.
    My hands didn't fall off.
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    Damn it I hate cursive. I never write in cursive even in English. Meh!

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    Quote Originally Posted by basurero
    Damn it I hate cursive. I never write in cursive even in English. Meh!
    My Russian and Ukrainian handwritings are much better than my English handwriting.
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    Not a handwriting font, but a plain old Courier font, is available for free at:

    http://www.paratype.ru/primer/

    Windows and Mac pcs.

    It has the old letters like yat' and fita, too.

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    't' looks like 'm'
    Russian small (cursive, not block) "т" is English "m".
    If you have problems with both posting new messages and sending PMs, you can send an e-mail to the Forum Administrator here:
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    У меня что-то с почтой, на ЛС ответить не могу. (

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    Mistral. Download "Mistral" font and switch to cyrillic.

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