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Originally Posted by MMM
Your kanji should NOT look like the samples hand-written samples Harold posted. It should look more like the printed versions.
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Are you referring to the Google results samples? I had someone PM me samples of a letter from a Japanese penpal, and they looked pretty similar to those.
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Originally Posted by Nyororin
Real people do not write in calligraphy for anything other than the purpose of writing in calligraphy. It`s not common use.
Take a pic or scan your handwriting. I`ll tell you whether it`s legible or not. My husband`s handwriting sucks, but it`s more balance and shape than anything nearing a mistake. Every stroke counts - if you screw them up then it`s going to be illegible.
Stylized calligraphy is NOT what you should be looking at to judge - but neither are any fonts as printed Japanese is different than handwritten.
Actually, I`m having déjà vu now... I believe I posted something very similar to this relatively recently. Do a search for fonts and hopefully you can find it.
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http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...njisamples.jpg
I did these on my tablet pretty quickly, just jotted down. I'm pretty sure that 金 is pretty illegible. Particularly in the second set. XD
I figured that few people write them exactly as the calligraphy or computer fonts look. But I don't want to get used to writing them the way that I do if they're totally off, you know?
I'll do a search for that thread. ^.^