Thanks for your feedback! I’m glad you had time to read this.

love,
Desi

Hmm, I’ve always constructed my numeral fives in a single stroke. In fairness, it requires rather severe mental and physical discipline. However, “double strokes seem quite baroque.”

I’m with Becky — stroke 2 should be stroke 1. Then give it a hat.

I tried to be normal but all it got me was this:

“ugly fives pic”

I just gotta be me!

Huzzah! Glad it worked out.

Weirdly, I can spot the old-skool five numeral in the sample. I believe it’s true that our recognitionizers are sensitive to strokes, moreso than we’d think. Unrelatedly, speech is very directional: you can usually tell when someone is speaking AT you, or AWAY from you, which is why you’re sometimes convinced that someone’s talking to you, even though you’re on the bus and you have no idea what the person means.

I have the (mis)fortune of having grown up in a household where handwriting, and other crafts, are unusually vaunted, leading to an obsession or paranoia with letterforms. Every few years (a locust-cycle, maybe), I spend some months trying to convert my lowercase “a” into the printed form, the way my dad writes it (with the little hoodie as you see here in Courier).

Anyway, glad the fives are in style.

You have conquered your 5s. Very proud am I.

p.s. another way to make 5′s is making your #2 stroke the #1 stroke, and vicey versey. I think that’s how NORMAL people do it. You clearly need more practice in how normal people do it.

Nice scanning job!

I have a problem with my lowercase s’s. They look like… I dunno. Lines. Often. Not enough squiggle. But surely esses don’t require more than one stroke!