Once the basic letterforms have been mastered the best way of acquiring a fluent Italic hand is to study examples of successful Italic handwriting.

The Society for Italic Handwriting is a Registered Charity (number 287889R), and was founded in 1952 by Alfred Fairbank, a most notable British calligrapher, & Joseph Compton, a Director of Education in London. Its aim is to spread the practice of the Italic script.

The Society for Italic Handwriting was founded in 1952 but its origins lie thirty years before then. Alfred Fairbank, then a young clerk in the Admiralty, and a disciple of but not a pupil of Edward Johnston, was attending evening classes, learning to produce illuminated manuscripts, and in his leisure time becoming a calligrapher of some repute.

Jul 17, 2009 · Learning Italic handwriting in conclusion is a good, fine, free flowing Italic pen, constant study of fine examples and constant, compulsive practice in writing Italic shapes anywhere, anytime on almost anything.

Jul 17, 2009 · Italic handwriting is the modernised version of the Chancery hand which was first perfected by Roman scribes in the early part of the sixteenth century.

There are numerous publications about handwriting in general and Italic handwriting specifically, the majority of the latter being published in the UK in the 1950s and 60s.

Jul 21, 2009 · In our own day, this hand has been revived, under the name of 'italic', as a successful solution to the problems of modern handwriting. The italic models which approach most nearly to the spirit and effectiveness of the original are those of Alfred Fairbank as seen in his Handwriting Manual and Beacon Writing Series.

Handwriting Advice. Handwriting Repair; Handwriting Resources. Handwriting Success Website for Getty-Dubay italic handwriting and calligraphy workbooks, italic fonts, worksheets and instructional videos. Letter Exchange. Everyone in the letter exchange writes one italic letter per month and receives one letter per month from someone else in the ...

Jul 17, 2009 · It has been asked whether italic handwriting is the 99th version of a Renascence hand or whether it is a 20th century hand. My answer is that it is a traditional hand. Towards the end of the 16th century it got into unsuitable company and bad ways - that is, it became copperplate, and the engraver's needle set the standard instead of the pen.

Alfred Fairbank, in the Introduction to his Handwriting Manual, is rather more down to earth: Handwriting is a functional thing, intended for communicating and recording thought. ... How satisfying when something ordinary and commonplace is raised towards the beautiful.