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Cursive e

Cursive e is a small loop that reaches only the midline: the same stroke as l, cut to half its height.

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Cursive e in Playwrite US Trad, traditional US cursive, on the four handwriting lines
  • aea

    After a, from the baseline

  • oea

    After o, from the midline

Stroke order
  1. 1Swing up from the baseline in a slant to the midline.
  2. 2Loop back to the left.
  3. 3Come down across the upstroke to the baseline and curve out.
Where it joins
After b, o, v and w there is no upstroke: the stroke from the midline turns straight into the loop, so the e hangs from it, as in “be”, “oe” and “we”.
Mixed up with

The height of the loop decides it: the midline for e, the top line for l. Without a loop at all, e reads as an undotted i.

Practise with
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Print a practice sheet for e →Capital E

01 / In other fonts

e in 10 scripts

The same letter in connected scripts from the catalogue, from casual brush to formal copperplate. Each opens its font.