Handwriting sample chart
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Open 4
Open 4 with a crossbar and no closed triangle
Closed 4
Closed 4 with a triangular top
Plain 7
A 7 with no crossbar
Crossed 7
A 7 with a horizontal crossbar
Single storey
Single-storey handwritten a, one counter
Double storey
Double-storey a like the printed letter
Open tail
Lowercase g with an open hook
Looped tail
Lowercase g with a closed loop
Plain 0
An oval zero with no slash
Slashed 0
A zero with a diagonal slash
Plain stroke
A 1 drawn as one straight stroke
With a foot
A 1 with a top flag and a base
No bar
A t stem with no crossbar
Through the middle
A t crossed at mid-height
Near the top
A t crossed high on the stem
Close dot
An i with the dot close to the stem
High dot
An i with the dot high above the stem
Circle
An i with an open circle instead of a dot
Straight tail
A y with a straight descender
Looped tail
A y with a looped descender
A plus sign
A plus sign used in place of an ampersand
The et form
A traditional ampersand from the Latin et ligature
With a flourish
An ampersand with an extra sweeping stroke
Tight
Two words with a tight gap
Even
Two words with an even gap about one letter wide
Wide
Two words with a wide gap
Left
Downstrokes leaning left of vertical
Upright
Downstrokes near vertical
Right
Downstrokes leaning right, as in italic