Grundschrift

Hamburg's block letters

Grundschrift (base font, literally ground script) is a simplified form of handwriting adopted by Hamburg schools, and it is currently endorsed by the German National Primary Schoolteachers' Union.^[1]

If nationally adopted, it would replace the three different German cursives currently being taught in schools: the Lateinische Ausgangsschrift (introduced in 1953), the Schulausgangsschrift (1968), and the Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift (1969), providing a standardized system of handwriting in German school systems.^[2]

Grundschrift letters are written separately as block letters as opposed to cursive script, in which letters are conjoined together in a flowing motion.

See also

• Kurrent
• Sütterlin

References

Types of handwritten European scripts Ancient and Medieval Roman Rustic Uncial Visigothic Merovingian Carolingian Insular script Beneventan Blackletter Rotunda Bastarda Humanist Greek Cyrillic Glagolitic Court hand Gothic Modern Cursive Chancery Italic Round Secretary Library D'Nealian Copperplate Spencerian Kurrent Sütterlin Grundschrift Cyrillic Shorthand