Letter fonts
Backhand: a left-handed, back-slanted cursive handwriting font
A cursive that leans the other way, which is exactly why people notice it.
What Backhand looks like
- Joined letters that lean back to the left.
- Slightly narrower than our other cursive styles.
- One page holds about 22 lines of your message (a plain letter, before a date or return address).
- Accents: English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian.
- How it prints: as fine single lines, in black ink on our letter paper.
When to choose Backhand
- Congratulations and good-luck notes
- Letters from anyone who writes with their left hand
- Notes that should stand out from the usual
On professional thanks, people write client, patient and referral thank-yous. Pick the style that sounds like you, and it prints the same on every page.
Reading it
Joined, with a back slant. Clear in short letters; some readers find a back slant slower over a long page.
Stationery that suits Backhand
- Soirée: An engraved-style invitation: the couple’s cipher in a laurel wreath, names in letterspaced Roman capitals, every line centered and spelled out.
- Hush: A sprig of baby’s breath in fine line, ’Welcome’ in small capitals and the baby’s name in italic.
- Frost: A snowflake turned on our rose engine, six fine dendrite arms, over ’Season’s Greetings’ and your family line.
Choose the stationery in the letter studio, after you pick the style.
Write it in Backhand
Designed by have it printed
An original font created and owned by Have It Printed, LLC. Only available here.
Made in house from a 1915 penmanship manual, then turned to lean back to the left by our team, with a few natural variations of every letter.
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