Article: The "classic" love letter is a breathless, passionate note scrawled with a plume or a fountain pen on parchment. While it's pretty difficult to create this sort of Romeo and Juliet letter today, you can still give your letter a little bit of old-fashioned charm by writing your closing in cursive. Big, loopy, dramatic letters can call to mind the star-crossed lovers of past centuries for an oh-so-romantic effect. Need a refresher on how to write in cursive? See our cursive guide for step-by-step help and sample documents. If you're going to write your name in cursive, you may want to carefully write each letter out instead of quickly scrawling your signature in. You don't want your reader not to recognize your name. Show your feelings for your reader (and score some cuteness points at the same time) by sprinkling adorable symbols of love throughout your closing. Hearts are the most obvious symbol, but, depending on how far you want to go, you can try drawing male/female symbols, wedding rings, roses, and more it's all up to you. There's no "right" way to do this, but one common trick is to draw a small heart wherever you'd normally dot a lowercase "i" or "j". If you have the time and energy, you can score major points for effort by using your closing as a chance to show off your inner artist. Draw each letter (or, if you're in a rush, just the first) as a detailed, elaborate picture. You can include plants, animals, or other drawings as part of each illuminated letter it's up to you! See this guide for a quick to the sorts of medieval letter drawings that established this sort of tradition (with pictures). Not all letters are handwritten. In fact, today, the vast majority of letters are made with some sort of help from a computer. This doesn't mean that you have to settle for plain text standbys like Times New Roman, however. Try using a more eye-catching font for your closing to add creativity and beauty to your letter most word processors come with at least a few interesting fonts. Here are a just a few fonts included with recent editions of Office that you may want to use: Blackadder, Bradley Hand, Brush Script, Colonna, Kunstler Script, Parchment, Vivaldi Italic. You can also download fonts online if you can't find any that you like. For example, 1001fonts.com offers over 200 cursive fonts alone.

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Try cursive. Add hearts and "love" symbols wherever you can. Try big, illuminated letters. If typing, try a dramatic font.