Trail Guide for beginners of Cursive Handwriting Trail Guide Home , Ordering Info , Handwriting Helpers , Calligraphy , Design Studio Use the vocabulary list and diagram below as keys to the trail signs for successful cursive handwriting. Print out page and keep in your notebook. The line marking highest peak or point of lower case letters. The base of the hill line which all letters sit upon. Connector A letter stroke which joins one letter to the next.
Most letters use baseline connectors.
Cross bar S mall, horizontal strokes of the t and f, follow the waistline. The space trapped inside letter. The line below baseline marking lowest point of all letters. Letter slant The angle at which all letters lean. Usually 3 to 7 degrees.