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Block letters (known asprintscript,manuscript,print writing, printing orball and stick in academics) are asans-serif (or "gothic") style of writingLatin script in which the letters are individualglyphs, with no joining.
Elementary education in English-speaking countries typically introduces children to the literacy of handwriting using a method of block letters (commonly referred to as manuscript by educators), which may later advance tocursive (joined) penmanship. The policy of teaching cursive in American elementary schools has varied over time, from strict endorsement such as thePalmer method in the early 20th century, to removal byCommon Core in 2010, to being reinstated.[1]
On official forms, one is often asked to "please print". This is because cursive handwriting is harder to read, and the glyphs are joined so they do not fit neatly into separate boxes.
Block letters may also be used as to refer toblock capitals, which means writing inall capital letters or inlarge and small capital letters, imitating the style of typeset capital letters.[2] However, in at least one court case involvingpatents, the term "block letters" was found to include bothupper and lower case.[2]
Handwritten block letters generally can be digitalised more accurately byoptical character recognition than handwritten cursive scripts.[3] Block letters are naturally used incrossword puzzles.
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