Quote Originally Posted by Raistlin View Post
If you have to cross your 7s in order to distinguish them, you need to write better.
This. I didn't even learn to write until I was nine and I probably have better handwriting than most of you all my letters and numbers are easily distinguishable as what they are. Especially if there are both letters and numbers. So "oh well they look similar and if I'm writing letters and numbers together" is no excuse. When doing calculus I make a very slight dash inside the circle near the top as I'm drawing it so it's distinguishable as a zero but not dumb-looking. Also 0 is skinny and O is plump anyway. 1 always has a base and that extra little dash thing at the top, but it stand up straight so it's easily distinguishable from 7, which is slanted and doesn't have a base. Plus I draw 2 with the little curly at the bottom so it's distinguishable from Z. Take a calligraphy course or something, jeez.

Quote Originally Posted by Shorty View Post
It's not to distinguish them, it's to make them look pretty!
Then you are wrong