Edu NSW ACT Cursive
Designed By
Tina and Corey Anderson, Eben Sorkin, Mirko Velimirovic
4 Styles Handwriting
A little note,
before you go.
Edu NSW ACT Cursive · Regular
Try a short note, a name or a line of your own to compare the strokes and spacing.
4 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Edu NSW ACT Cursive ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
My weekend at the beach
A Note On The Page
Edu NSW ACT Cursive · Regular
A short letter, set in the family.
Thursday afternoon
Dear Alex,
I left the book by the window. There is a note on page twenty-three that I thought you would like. Bring it along on Thursday; we can finish the conversation over coffee.
See you there.
4 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
My weekend at the beach
Medium500
My weekend at the beach
Semi Bold600
My weekend at the beach
Bold700
My weekend at the beach
By Year 4 or 5, children in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory are past printing and past the halfway Foundation Precursive they pick up around Year 3 or 4. What comes next is full cursive, and this font is that stage. The AU School Handwriting Fonts project planned these joined counterparts for the older years, so that each stage a state teaches has a font to match.
Under the hood it is 1 of several fonts built from the same Edu NSW ACT Hand source. The build switches on stylistic set 3 permanently to get the cursive joins; other settings of the same source produce the Precursive, an Outline, a Dotted version and a few more. It has contextual alternates too, with 6 stylistic sets.
Some details are aimed straight at the classroom:
- the Regular matches the weight of a pencil stroke
- overshoots are kept tiny, so round letters sit cleanly on ruled lines
The designers are Tina and Corey Anderson, she from software and later educational apps, he a calligrapher and graphic artist, with Eben Sorkin and Mirko Velimirovic also named in the font. 4 weights go from Regular to Bold; we would keep the heavier 2 for titles on a worksheet and let children trace the Regular.
Characters & Figures
393 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 375 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Edu NSW ACT Cursive
4 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 623 KB ↓- Version
- 2.000
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/edu-nsw-act-cursive/edu-nsw-act-cursive.css">
body {
font-family: 'Edu NSW ACT Cursive', cursive;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Edu NSW ACT Cursive Heading · Inter Body
Thursday, Half Past Four
I left the book by the window. There is a note on page twenty-three that I thought you would like. Bring it along on Thursday; we can finish the conversation over coffee.