Font and method for printing cursive script

A method of printing educationally correct cursive written material having preceding, succeeding and following characters of the English alphabet which are formed from a plurality of groups, of different letters of the alphabet having the same distinctive beginning strokes, comprising:

• (a) providing a plurality of discrete letter character forms of the same letter of the English alphabet having connector elements which come to indistinguishably meet with the distinctive beginning strokes of adjacent letters in printed words of the cursive written material,
• (b) selecting from the plurality of discrete character forms, on the basis of and with discrimination as to the form of the beginning strokes, a succeeding character having an extending character element of matching form with the character that will follow the letter being selected.
• (c) positioning said succeeding character form adjacent to said preceding character form with the connector of said preceding character in indistinguishable contacting position on said succeeding character, and
• (d) successively printing said character forms to produce printed cursive writing with indistinguishable connections in ligature.

A font of characters constituting a form of Zaner-Bloser cursive written English alphabet, when combined and employed in printing words and sentences and in the teaching of educationally correct cursive writing, wherein the characters of the font forming the letters a, d, g, and q have a down curve beginning stroke form, the letters i, j, p, r, s, t, u and w have a minimum undercurve beginning stroke form, the letters o and c have a steep down curve beginning stroke form, the letters m, n, v, x, y, and z have an overcurve beginning stroke form, the letters b, f, h, k, and l have a maximum undercurve beginning stroke form, and the letter e has a short undercurve beginning stroke form and check stroke beginning stroke form;

• said font comprising;
• (a) a set of individual letter forms impressed upon a substrate and containing individually the basic unconnected forms of the letters of the alphabet;
• and
• (b) a plurality of subsets comprising individual letter forms impressed upon a substrate, with each subset containing the same letter of the alphabet on each form, and with each letter form of each subset having a different connector shaped to print an undistinguishable connection in ligature with the beginning stroke form of the following printed letter when the plurality of connectable letters are assembled in printed words, or having a word ending shape.