Do you write in capitals or little letters?

[Misty Avich]

It seems a lot of people I know write in all capitals, and I heard it's because it helps keep the handwriting neat and all the letters are the same size. But I don't like writing in capitals. Whenever I do, I can't seem to get them looking neat or the same size, and the spaces between each letter can sometimes end up wide enough to look like separate words. My handwriting is much neater when I write in little letters (obviously I use a capital letter at the beginning of sentences or when writing a name or whatever).

How about you? Are you better writing in all capitals, or little letters?

 

[Judge]

I always print in both upper case and lower case letters.

Though when I print a grocery list they are legendary in terms of small print.

 

[tree]

I use both Upper and Lower Case letters when I print.

I don't use Cursive much, at all.

 

[Outdated]

As a tradesman we were trained to always print in all caps. And if anyone's writing was too illegible they they either corrected their writing quickly or they switched to some other type of work. The same goes for factory and process workers. Things need to be labeled clearly so that they can be easily read by all, if you can't manage that then your not even fit for unskilled labour.

 

[Rodafina]

Depends on my purpose with the words. All caps for when I want things to look clean and ordered. My own personal cursive-scrawl for when I want to write quickly and feel more free with my writing.

 

[Heroine of Winds]

I normally use capital letters while writing in cursive. Sometimes I print the letters out, but I rather use cursive because I'm so used to it and it looks neater.

 

[Misty Avich]

I just feel that whenever I write in all caps I'm just scribbling a load of dashes and lines and the letters are spaced out and uneven. I can't bear it.

I label bottles of cleaning supplies at work all in little letters, and it's much easier to read. If I wrote in all caps it wouldn't all fit on the label and would just be uneven and scrawly.

 

[Jumpinbare]

I begin sentences with capitols unless I'm really tired and don't care. The first letters of proper names I capitolize. Everything else is lower case.

 

[Gerontius]

I use longhand cursive quite plain and try to use correct capitalization as if I were typing.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

I use cursive, with proper capitalization and punctuation. Printing is much too slow.

 

[Jonn]

How about you? Are you better writing in all capitals, or little letters?

Better?
Never thought about it.

I write in capitals.
I used to text in capitals decades ago, but I was met with extreme harassment/hatred and I it was demanded that I "DON'T SHOUT!"

I mean seriously?
The worst in the world for using CAPITALS?

Spoiler

I'm glad we don't have CAPITAL PUNISHMENT in Australia any longer.

Spoiler

NO, I DON'T TEXT IN CAPITALS ANY LONGER.

 

[Neia]

I have "Pretty and neat." cursive. My teachers always complimented me on it. I use capitalisation appropriately.
My mom made sure my cursive was nice looking before I started school.

But sometimes, if I'm writing writing, as in writing a story and letting words flow, when I go to read what I wrote, I have to guess a lot my pretty cursive turns to chicken-scratch.

I label things in capital print, but find it awkward.

 

[Outdated]

As a child in primary school I had a perfect copperplate hand just like my mother, but it was laborious and slow for me and my hand always cramped and I hated it. When we got to highschool we were told that we no longer had to write in cursive and that we could write however we liked. Then I started writing in print, all caps, in the same neat and small writing as my father. My hand still always cramped and I still hated it though.

I was in my 30s when practical home computers became popular and then I started writing on a keyboard, then I discovered that I really like writing, just not by hand.

 

[Roisin]

It depends on the purpose, if it's notes taken quickly my own cursive is more efficient, but in this form it's sometimes legible only to me .
For anything else I prefer to print in sentence format upper and lowercase.

 

[SusanLR]

When writing quickly for myself it is practically illegible except to me and I wouldn't want anyone else to try to read it.

When I want it to look nice, I print in both upper -and lower-case letters.
So, I use both.

 

[MNAus]

Always struggled with writing. Fine motor skill problem I think. I learned the mechanisms of cursive, but it was virtually illegible. Once I left school where it was required I stopped and moved to writing in all caps, printed. Couldn't ever really write in the first place, but certainly can't write any other way now.

 

[Misty Avich]

I'll post photos of my writing in caps vs little letters later.

 

[DrBadStrings]

It's situationally dependent. In my personal journal or letters to friends/family etc I write in cursive and only capitalize where it would be traditionally expected.

At work in my field log book, or any other records it's always printed capitals for maximum clarity. I'm an engineering technologist (engineers assistant) so the notes have to be clear for anyone that comes along after me.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I print write pretty typical for people with engineering backgrounds.

 

[NDR2]

I use both. Both when writing to other people and writing things down for myself.