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Cursive l

Cursive l is a single tall loop: the stroke of e taken all the way up to the top line.

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Cursive l in Playwrite US Trad, traditional US cursive, on the four handwriting lines
  • ala

    After a, from the baseline

  • ola

    After o, from the midline

Stroke order
  1. 1Swing up from the baseline in a long slant to the top line.
  2. 2Loop back to the left.
  3. 3Come straight down across the upstroke to the baseline and curve out.
Where it joins
It ends on the baseline and flows into anything after it; “ll” is two loops in a row. After b, o, v and w the loop rises straight from their stroke at the midline, as in “ol”.
Mixed up with

Height is everything: an l that stops short of the top line reads as e. Print l is a straight stroke; cursive l is always a loop, the same one b starts with.

Practise with
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Print a practice sheet for l →Capital L

01 / In other fonts

l in 10 scripts

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