Cursive GeneratorWhat a cursive style is
A handwriting model: a set of decisions about slant, loops, lead-in strokes and joins that a school or a penman settled on, so that every writer taught from it produces the same letterforms. The pages here cover the models US and UK schools teach today (traditional slant, continuous stroke, vertical simplified, italic unlooped, looped), the historical American hands they descend from (Spencerian, the Palmer Method), the formal calligraphic scripts (Copperplate, English round hand), and the school scripts of France, Germany and Russia.
How to choose one
For a child, the model the school uses; ask, and the worksheet generator prints practice sheets in the closest face. For an adult relearning, the traditional slant model if that is what you were taught, or the italic unlooped model, which is faster and closer to how most adult hands drift. For a left-hander, the vertical model. For calligraphy, Copperplate or Spencerian, which need a pointed pen rather than a ballpoint. The comparison page renders the same word in every model side by side.
Styles and fonts are different things
A style is a way of writing by hand. The fonts on this site imitate some of them, and each style page names the closest font, but a font gives the same stroke every time and a hand does not. Copy-paste cursive for bios is neither: it is a set of Unicode characters that look like script.