Analysis of United States Patent and Trademark Office data shows that while in 1970, 12.4% of new U.S. wordmarks were in cursive, the number dipped to 4.7% in 2000 before rebounding to 7.2% this year.

They sent the following statement, saying: “Cursive is not required in the Colorado Academic Standards and many states across the country have also removed cursive instruction from their curriculum.

Melissa Riofrio/IDG Does Microsoft Word have handwriting or cursive fonts? Click the drop-down list in the Font section of the Ribbon menu to see the full list. You can review the current Windows ...

For a more professionally produced handwriting font, look to Chank Diesel’s Go Font Yourself, volumes 1 and 2. Each collection contains several dozen handwritten fonts by real people.