Raise your hand, Pandas who still have a notebook! (A handful of hands slowly come up.) Now, raise your hand if you write in that notebook! While we listen to the humming silence, I have to admit that in the past week, I scribbled out a single post-it note with my groceries list. The fact is obvious: typing has pretty much replaced the good, old and beautiful art of handwriting. (I am not looking at you, doctors!)

Cursive writing has become a skill on its own. Some states, such as Indiana, have decided to go on teaching it in school. Others claim that cursive should be cherished like any other great tradition whose disappearance would be a cultural tragedy.

So without further ado, we have some fantastic pen-spiration to write a letter, a Christmas card, or a diary entry with the most beautiful examples of handwriting. Scroll down below, upvote your favorite ones and be sure to check out Bored Panda’s previous lists with the perfect handwriting here and here.

#1 More Penmanship Styles With Ballpoint

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#2 Shopping List Found On The Street In Prague

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#3 Another One Of My Notes. Trying To Improve My Handwriting Every Time I Get A Chance

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#4 This Is The Whiteboard After One Of My Professor’s Classes. It’s Just So Nice To Look At

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#5 Futuristic Handwriting In My Building

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#6 New Weekly Sign For Work. All Dry Erase Markers, No Stencil

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#7 My Journals

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#8 Hope You Like My Spencerian Cursive Script

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#9 Foundational Hand

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#10 First Day Back At Work. Found This On A Whiteboard

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#11 Voltaire Knows What’s Up

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#12 My Attempt At Gothic Writing

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#13 My Niece’s Handwriting Is Very Precise. Calming Just To Look At

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#14 My Handwritten Calligram / Skull Study, On A Sonnet By John Donne

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#15 This Person’s Handwriting

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#16 I Hadn’t Written Anything In Super Long So I Broke That Streak Today

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#17 My Sister’s Homework

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#18 My Friend’s Neat Handwriting

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#19 My English Teacher’s Agenda

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#20 Here’s My Second Menu Board

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#21 You Either End Up Like Spongebob Or Live Long Enough To Become A Squidward

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#22 Somebody Did A Real Nice Job Labeling My Takeout

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#23 The Handwriting In My Grandfather’s Diary

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#24 My Art Teacher’s Handwriting

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#25 We Are All One Spark

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#26 Three Fonts Using A Stub Nib

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#27 My Younger Sister’s Handwriting

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#28 Starbucks Barista’s Handwriting

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#29 My Psych Notes

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#30 I Tried Handwriting. How’s This?

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#31 My Apologies For The Grid Paper

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#32 So, My Barista Remembered My Birthday

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#33 My Boss Pays Me To Write Out Names For Birthdays, Thank You, Etc Cards

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#34 Beautiful Handwriting

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#35 My Girlfriends Landlord

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#36 It Looks Like A Font

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#37 Don’t Care If It’s Early, I’m Excited

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#38 Today’s Leftovers From Las Trojas

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#39 What Happened? Bojack Horseman Quote

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#40 This Letter From My Pen Pal

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#41 Some Students Drew This On The Sidewalk Outside The School I Work At

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#42 I Wrote This Alphabet In Foundational Hand

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#43 Hope You Guys Can Enjoy My Classmate’s Handwriting

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#44 Fountain Pen Handwriting

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#45 Spent Several Seconds Staring To Make Sure It Isn’t A Print Font In This Handwritten Thank-You Card

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#46 Small Lettering Using A Uni Pin Fine Line Dark Grey 0.1

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#47 This Is My Bangla Handwriting. Anybody Bengali?

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#48 Saw A Handwriting Post Here The Other Day, I’ve Been Told My Writing In The Middle Of The Lines Is Satisfying

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#49 I’m Finally Starting To Get Happy With My Spencerian

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#50 It’s My Nan And Grandad 60th Wedding Anniversary Today

He made this poem up on the walk home the night he first stole a kiss from her. I’ve rewritten the poem in my tidiest hand and decorated it with things that remind me of them – I hope they love it!

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#51 One Of My Fellow Law Student’s Handwriting Is Just Gorgeous

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#52 Practicing Cursive

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#53 I Heard John Oliver Say This A Lot On His Show. Sailor Pen (Don’t Remember Which One), Apache Sunset Ink. Written On Traveler’s Notebook (Tomoe River Paper)

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#54 Found On The Tube In London, Almost Made Me Miss My Train Home

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#55 I Came Across A Box Full Of These Hand-Written Journals In A House I’m Working On This Morning

There are more than a dozen of them, and they’re all from the early to mid 1800’s. Each one is totally filled with this handwriting.

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#56 My Dad’s Handwriting

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#57 The Choices We Make Today Create The Future That We Are Dreaming Of

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#58 I’m Really Proud Of How I Wrote This Part Of My Notes

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#59 My Japanese Handwriting Practice

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#60 My First Serious Attempt At Flourishing

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#61 Russian Cursive

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#62 This Handwriting

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#63 The Handwriting On This Menu At A Local Diner

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#64 Not Making A Great First Impression With The Neighbors But Look At That Handwriting

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#65 Beautiful Handwriting By Our Waitress After Dining At A Local Sushi Restaurant Tonight

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#66 Didn’t Mean To Make This So Perfect. Was Told You Guys Would Enjoy This

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#67 My Wife Nailed The Frosting Medium. She Is Super Talented With Handwriting, And I’m Continually Jelly

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#68 My Engineer Grandfather Wrote This In 1976 When He Thought My Dad Was Going Down A Bad Path

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#69 From A Local Sweet Shop

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#70 My Mum’s Handwriting, And Graduation Present From Years Back

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#71 I Was Told Some People Here Might Enjoy My Handwriting

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#72 Practicing Some Handwriting

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#73 Perfect Handwriting

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#74 Rate My Handwriting

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#75 The Forgotten Art Of Calligraphy: This Is How Schoolchildren Wrote In 1951 (Cyrillic)

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#76 Russian Handwriting

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#77 My Friend’s Handwriting

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#78 Chem Lab Turned A Bit Gothic

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#79 My Uncle’s Handwriting (Vietnamese)

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#80 I’m Not A Calligrapher Or A Scribe. I’m A Firefighter And A Colleague Is Getting Married Today. He Asked If I’d Write Out His And His Wife’s Vows

They turned out alright.

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#81 All The Boards At The Hospital I Work At Are Written Like This

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#82 Chicken Tenders

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#83 This Note From Our Hotel’s Housekeeper

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#84 This 3 I Wrote While Studying For Finals

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#85 My Grandpa’s Notebook From 1989

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#86 Found My Old Dip Pen

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#87 A Trader Joe’s In Albuquerque New Mexico

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#88 Happy Halloween

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#89 Stumbled Across One Of My Old Burnt CD’s

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#90 My Girlfriend Is Going To Be An Elementary School Teacher. This Is Her Handwriting

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#91 Starbucks Barista Handwriting

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#92 My Boyfriend’s Mom’s Handwriting

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#93 So Satisfying

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#94 My Marathi Handwriting

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#95 Writing Some Lyrics For Practice

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#96 This Is My Handwriting

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#97 My Handwriting

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#98 January

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#99 Took This A Few Days Ago. Transit Worker With Beautiful Handwriting

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#100 Print Handwriting

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#101 Hold My Hand While We Jump Off This Cliff

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#102 I’ve Always Liked Tinkering With My Handwriting. This Is The Style I’ve More Or Less Settled With For The Past Two Years. Let Me Know Your Thoughts

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#103 Something A Little Different, Thai Penmanship

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#104 My Friend’s Notes

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#105 Very Much Enjoyed The Writing On The Takeout Containers From One Of My Favorite Restaurants

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#106 Here’s A Little Of My Handwriting

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#107 My Son’s Preschool Teacher Has Some Impressive Penmanship. My Son Has A Questionable Way To Bake A Turkey

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#108 The Most Aesthetically Pleasing Handwriting Amiright? And On A Whiteboard

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#109 Nope, Not A Font. This Is My Co-Worker’s Handwriting

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#110 Some Writing With One Of My Very Favorite Pens

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