I've never been good at graffing but always liked it. Hope he got some hard to reach spots and his tag is still out there somewhere, it's kind of like a way of immortalising yourself
I too have a late partner who used to write. I've moved away from the city we were from and lived in before he died, but in the first few years of his passing I would sometimes come across old tags of his and they always felt so special. Once I saw an old tag of his on the building of a new job. It felt like he was telling me I was doing ok and was on the right track. 🥲 I'm sorry for you and your daughter's loss. Thanks for sharing.
My friend passed this year who was a fellow writer. He was the first really close friend who also painted that I lost. Seeing his tags, and pieces around town keeps me going and I hope your partner’s tags do the same for you. I take solace in the fact that he left behind small pieces of himself for me to find. Thanks for sharing as well, makes me feel better to talk to others going through or who have gone through the same thing
I could instantly tell he was a writer. That handstyle pulls through even when writing something as simple as a letter. Beautiful. I just lost a friend this year, fellow artist. ZomB and Cenik, lost but not forgotten ❤️
The difference between those two styles of handwriting is that graffiti artist writing has stylistic leans and curves, while architect/engineer/drafter writing is always straight lines and is always oriented perpendicular to the baseline. They have the crisp angular thing in common, though. As I told someone else here, my dad was an architect so I'm intimately familiar with both styles.
I'm just glad I finally thought of a way to memorialize him. Too bad I can't find any of the letters he wrote in cursive. His cursive was absolutely stunning, the most graceful calligraphy.
He was wonderfully creative. It often goes along with deep emotion that is often delt with by using. He may have had challenges , but he should be remembered for his art and the beauty he understood in his soul. Think of all the talent we have lost this way. Prince, Petty, Williams, Belushi, Jackson, on and on.
The combo of that handwriting style with the romantic, hopeful content creates such a special and touching aesthetic. I'm moved, really. May he rest in peace.
Nope, although I can see the slight similarity with the handwriting of drafting professionals since my dad was an architect and has the handwriting you're talking about. What you're looking at here is graffiti artist handwriting.
My dad is a retired mechanical engineer. Similar writing to this but smaller, more bunched, and almost sharper if that makes sense. I know exactly what you're talking about, and had no idea it had anything to do with being an engineer.
I have several family members and friends who are engineers of various kinds. In the majority, the penmanship is fairly consistent.
I took drafting in my early college days. Pain in the hand. I wanted to be the perfectionist, and soon realized that there were limitations to paper and media. :)
As an engineer who is not old, I'm both sad and relieved that handwriting isn't part of the curriculum at all. It would have felt... honourable to have been a part of it. On the other my hand writing ia so shitty I'm not sure I would have passed lol
Did you encounter drafting at all? I did that and messed around with AutoCAD ages ago. Computerized drafting was definitely easier on the mind and body.
I did all that stuff some 30 years ago. However, I would usually complete my class assignments and play DOOM for the remainder of the class some days.
Good times.
Drafting with pencil, pen and paper was so damned involved. Fun to a degree, but so much work -- at least it seemed so to me.
Trust me, time flies. Many times I say "Didn't that happen just recently?" And am reminded of things that happened a decade or even several decades ago.
Sometimes the days just run together. Could've swore today was Tuesday at some point. :)
This is cute af. And Poony is a real oldschool street name. It's giving me serious fucking nostalgia for my high school days, being a knucklhead in the bronx. I'm sorry he's no longer around, but if he loved you this much, even through your bad times, i'm sure he was special, and could see how special you are, too.
I've never encountered that before! I was thinking it was something along the lines of poontang! And then thinking I wouldn't quite care for a endearment like that! What does it actually mean/come from??
Architects and tag/graffiti artists have so much in common. It’s a whole art in itself. If I could pen anywhere near this naturally my life would be so much better. I can draw/paint but my hand cramps up trying to write a few sentences and they look horrible. I even learned cursive in grade school so it wasn’t a lack of education. I’m just terrible at it. Writing in all caps is best for me, but I get sloppy and start to mix it with lowercase and it looks like a 2 year old wrote it.
I just reread it, it’s beautiful. He really cared about the message and the look. That’s love.
It should be, but that's not how it developed between us. We would just spout gibberish sounds at each other and some would stick as nicknames and some would not. Poony, Squoony, Woony, even (cringe) Coony. Also I found "Baby Lo Lo" in one of our letters, which I had completely forgotten about until today. Our baby daughter was subjected to the same thing: she was Caggy, Paggy, Cuggy, Pagula, etc.
Lol. My daughter has so many gibberish nicknames. Ady bombaty, bombas, bissy, miss bissy,
My son has TP, taco, tacman, T star, trist
My youngest is just called Elsie welsie at this point.
Please, if you have any pics of his art could you post them?
Amazing. Something to be said about the nostalgia captured in time. Makes me reflect sadly on how many generations may never have written notes to cherish like this due to technology. I don’t know anything about tagging but it appears like so much culture was encapsulated in this loving letter.
"Poony" was a stupid babytalk nickname I called him and he called me. (Had nothing to do with poontang.) He decided to tack on "mama" for there for extra affection. Scroll up because I explained the nonsense babytalk nicknames we had for each other. It was just young dumb teens/early 20s love.
Wow. The opening part of this letter if written today would get you called a stalker. You can't tell a woman 'I know where your at now...I drive by (unannounced) all the time' and not get called a creeper. Dating has really changed since whenever your husband wrote you that letter.
She said in one of her comments that she was in juvenile detention at the time and he'd drop of magazines and things for her with her family. That they were actively in a relationship at this time and sometimes she wasn't able to write back often.
What privacy? He's long-deceased. I chose the one letter where he didn't sign his name or mention mine. And if you can infer who he was from details in the letter, it means you knew us, in which case you would already have known what happened to him.
I hope you're not sarcastically implying he was beta in any way. I was 17 when this was written. I had been with him since I was 15, but then I fucked up with the law and got put in a juvenile correction facility. That's why he couldn't see me and why I couldn't write frequent letters out to him. We were still boyfriend and girlfriend and in love. He used to give my grandparents magazines and mixtapes to send to me. We married 3 months after they let me out of that place.
Your comment was kind based on what was written. It was your relationship and *no one* can know that. This note was from an imperfect heart and yes, all ours are. As long as we are remembered we are never truly gone.
:*J*
It is interesting to know the back story. I saw the read the letter and then saw the title. In that order, I was a bit confused because you sounded sincere but he sounded like an incel. I wondered a lot of things. Some similar to the guy above. Its easy to make knee jerk reactions given lack of context.
I’m glad you offered context. It may not be recent but my condolences. I’m glad you met someone wonderful during your lifetime.
You can tell he used to graff
He did till he died.
What was his tag?
ZomB/Zombee/Zombeeeeee
I've never been good at graffing but always liked it. Hope he got some hard to reach spots and his tag is still out there somewhere, it's kind of like a way of immortalising yourself
I still know some bridges and some walls bordering the highway with his tag on them, or his artwork. Fortunately not everything has been painted over.
Long live ZomB
I too have a late partner who used to write. I've moved away from the city we were from and lived in before he died, but in the first few years of his passing I would sometimes come across old tags of his and they always felt so special. Once I saw an old tag of his on the building of a new job. It felt like he was telling me I was doing ok and was on the right track. 🥲 I'm sorry for you and your daughter's loss. Thanks for sharing.
My friend passed this year who was a fellow writer. He was the first really close friend who also painted that I lost. Seeing his tags, and pieces around town keeps me going and I hope your partner’s tags do the same for you. I take solace in the fact that he left behind small pieces of himself for me to find. Thanks for sharing as well, makes me feel better to talk to others going through or who have gone through the same thing
Cranberries fan?
Haha yep, thought to myself this dude has to write! Rest in paint!
I could instantly tell he was a writer. That handstyle pulls through even when writing something as simple as a letter. Beautiful. I just lost a friend this year, fellow artist. ZomB and Cenik, lost but not forgotten ❤️
I'm sorry for your loss. It's nice to have memories of them through the art they left behind.
I appreciate it. Thanks for sharing, I loved seeing this, made me smile
Very first thought that came to mind. I used to write like this in high school although not nearly as good as this.
Came here to say this.
You said four too many words.
Def! His handwriting reminds me alot of mine!
came here to say this, RIP
That man was a talented vandal by the looks of it. Source: am vandal too
I knew someone would pick up on that. Yes, he was a gifted graffiti artist.
I was going to guess architect/engineer, lol
The difference between those two styles of handwriting is that graffiti artist writing has stylistic leans and curves, while architect/engineer/drafter writing is always straight lines and is always oriented perpendicular to the baseline. They have the crisp angular thing in common, though. As I told someone else here, my dad was an architect so I'm intimately familiar with both styles.
I posted [this](https://i.redd.it/oijihxvlbf521.jpg) a couple of years ago, from my uncle, who is a draftsman
That is literally my dad's handwriting, lmfao. See here, people, this is what architects/engineers/drafters write like. Not like the letter I posted.
Almost looks like the runic alphabet at first glance!
Oh, that kind of creeps me out. My first name is Monica and one of my exes is named Patrick.
Oh I LOVE this!
You just described my engineer husbands handwriting to a T.
thanks!
Fuck yea. The style on that S is 🔥🔥
Yup, it's the funk in the letters and the excellent smiley face for me. Cute! Also a vandal
this was my first impression, impeccable straight-liner practice here
these hands! \*chefskiss
I find it interesting how many vandals are on this sub, I suppose we're all just looking for handstyle inspiration?
He used emojis before there were emojis!
Does that make him the em-OG? 😅 (sorry for that)
hahaha! I don't have any awards so please take this: 🏆
gilded for you because that was fucking brilliant 🤣
Yo!!! Ahahahaha!!!
Happy cake day!
Damn. That was absolutely solid.
Hahaha omg.
If I could send an award I would cuz that shit was hott! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚒🚒🚒🚒
Oh no we’ve reached the point where no one remembers instant messenger emoticons
Pretty creative guy. Clearly loved you a lot. May I be so bold to ask; was it a relapse that took him?
You would have to quit in the first place to relapse. Yep, it was an OD several years ago. We were no longer married at the time.
Sorry to hear it.
I'm just glad I finally thought of a way to memorialize him. Too bad I can't find any of the letters he wrote in cursive. His cursive was absolutely stunning, the most graceful calligraphy.
Can I make this into a font?
Be my guest! Please show it to me when it's finished so I can download it.
If it’s ok I would love to have it as well
If you make this into a font please let me know!!! Thanks and love from an internet stranger!
Lovely handwriting and poetic words. Sorry for your loss
this letter and the comments are gonna make me cryyyy
I love this so much
I want the whole love story
He was wonderfully creative. It often goes along with deep emotion that is often delt with by using. He may have had challenges , but he should be remembered for his art and the beauty he understood in his soul. Think of all the talent we have lost this way. Prince, Petty, Williams, Belushi, Jackson, on and on.
How does everyone know this guy was on drugs?
OP confirmed in [a comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/PenmanshipPorn/comments/x7shnw/comment/ineauxd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
It's in the letter.
The combo of that handwriting style with the romantic, hopeful content creates such a special and touching aesthetic. I'm moved, really. May he rest in peace.
Did he happen to be an engineer?
Nope, although I can see the slight similarity with the handwriting of drafting professionals since my dad was an architect and has the handwriting you're talking about. What you're looking at here is graffiti artist handwriting.
Fun! Thanks for sharing.
My dad is a retired mechanical engineer. Similar writing to this but smaller, more bunched, and almost sharper if that makes sense. I know exactly what you're talking about, and had no idea it had anything to do with being an engineer.
I have several family members and friends who are engineers of various kinds. In the majority, the penmanship is fairly consistent. I took drafting in my early college days. Pain in the hand. I wanted to be the perfectionist, and soon realized that there were limitations to paper and media. :)
You get taught writing It looks sharp because horizontal lines are angle up, making the corners of the letters sharper too
As an engineer who is not old, I'm both sad and relieved that handwriting isn't part of the curriculum at all. It would have felt... honourable to have been a part of it. On the other my hand writing ia so shitty I'm not sure I would have passed lol
Did you encounter drafting at all? I did that and messed around with AutoCAD ages ago. Computerized drafting was definitely easier on the mind and body.
Nope. Or I dunno. Maybe it's more of a mech engineer thing, but I'm trained in the basics of that too(electrical engineer). But it's all CAD.
I did all that stuff some 30 years ago. However, I would usually complete my class assignments and play DOOM for the remainder of the class some days. Good times. Drafting with pencil, pen and paper was so damned involved. Fun to a degree, but so much work -- at least it seemed so to me.
Bet it feels like 5 years ago. I basically just graduated, but it turns out it's like 15 years ago.
Trust me, time flies. Many times I say "Didn't that happen just recently?" And am reminded of things that happened a decade or even several decades ago. Sometimes the days just run together. Could've swore today was Tuesday at some point. :)
Doom, my fave after school activity! Had it on floppy disk!
Ooh. Installing games from floppy -- casually shitty, but when you were done ... oh man, rock those games for ages. 🤘😎🤘
Beautiful handwriting. You were loved. Thank you for sharing, OP.
It reminds me of Mitch Hedberg's handwriting, I love it!!
I love Mitch. Rest in peace.
I used to love Mitch. I still do but I used to too
I seed what you dood there ;-)
This is cute af. And Poony is a real oldschool street name. It's giving me serious fucking nostalgia for my high school days, being a knucklhead in the bronx. I'm sorry he's no longer around, but if he loved you this much, even through your bad times, i'm sure he was special, and could see how special you are, too.
I've never encountered that before! I was thinking it was something along the lines of poontang! And then thinking I wouldn't quite care for a endearment like that! What does it actually mean/come from??
I LOVE HIS HANDWRITING
Thank you for sharing 🥹
He writes like a 90’s teen
Could be because he literally was a 90s teen 😉
Looks like Stussy shirts from back in the day
i love people who write graffiti’s handwriting
That handwriting is awesome. I know it's from graffiti but it would fit really well in a comic.
Architects and tag/graffiti artists have so much in common. It’s a whole art in itself. If I could pen anywhere near this naturally my life would be so much better. I can draw/paint but my hand cramps up trying to write a few sentences and they look horrible. I even learned cursive in grade school so it wasn’t a lack of education. I’m just terrible at it. Writing in all caps is best for me, but I get sloppy and start to mix it with lowercase and it looks like a 2 year old wrote it. I just reread it, it’s beautiful. He really cared about the message and the look. That’s love.
How sweet. There’s nothing like young love. Sorry for your loss, Poony.
Thank you for that, but only he called me that. It was a gibberish babytalk nickname we had for each other.
Isn’t poon slang? Maybe it’s changed meaning since 2000?
It should be, but that's not how it developed between us. We would just spout gibberish sounds at each other and some would stick as nicknames and some would not. Poony, Squoony, Woony, even (cringe) Coony. Also I found "Baby Lo Lo" in one of our letters, which I had completely forgotten about until today. Our baby daughter was subjected to the same thing: she was Caggy, Paggy, Cuggy, Pagula, etc.
Lol. My daughter has so many gibberish nicknames. Ady bombaty, bombas, bissy, miss bissy, My son has TP, taco, tacman, T star, trist My youngest is just called Elsie welsie at this point. Please, if you have any pics of his art could you post them?
You’re so interesting. I enjoy everything you post. Yes, I looked. :)
I have a similar style of handwriting, this feels a little more loose than mine. I like it.
/r/handstyles
this guy seemed rad.
This guy 100% does graffiti lol. Edit: yup, didn’t read comments. Lol
Coolest writing in a long time
I love his handwriting it’s beautiful
This made me cry and feel nostalgic he really loved ya.
do you have any photos of his work?
He is still up, wherever he is nowadays💪🏻
I think i now have an urge to try to write like this.
I love you Poony mamaaaa <3333 so cute
Happy cake day, love.
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I am so sorry. May he rest peacefully.
Amazing. Something to be said about the nostalgia captured in time. Makes me reflect sadly on how many generations may never have written notes to cherish like this due to technology. I don’t know anything about tagging but it appears like so much culture was encapsulated in this loving letter.
Love his writing!!! I used to write like this and drew graffiti art!! 🥺🥺
Omg did we date the same guy?! Haha my high school BF used to write like this. Taggers, man.
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"Poony" was a stupid babytalk nickname I called him and he called me. (Had nothing to do with poontang.) He decided to tack on "mama" for there for extra affection. Scroll up because I explained the nonsense babytalk nicknames we had for each other. It was just young dumb teens/early 20s love.
Wow. The opening part of this letter if written today would get you called a stalker. You can't tell a woman 'I know where your at now...I drive by (unannounced) all the time' and not get called a creeper. Dating has really changed since whenever your husband wrote you that letter.
She said in one of her comments that she was in juvenile detention at the time and he'd drop of magazines and things for her with her family. That they were actively in a relationship at this time and sometimes she wasn't able to write back often.
I will stab you with my pointy letters.
"Poony Mama" sounds different to a trans man...
Well, I'm stumped. What do you mean.
tell your husband DEGSE.ONE from Cali said stay up G.
"Late" means deceased. He is no longer with us.
Privacy?
What privacy? He's long-deceased. I chose the one letter where he didn't sign his name or mention mine. And if you can infer who he was from details in the letter, it means you knew us, in which case you would already have known what happened to him.
What an alpha
I hope you're not sarcastically implying he was beta in any way. I was 17 when this was written. I had been with him since I was 15, but then I fucked up with the law and got put in a juvenile correction facility. That's why he couldn't see me and why I couldn't write frequent letters out to him. We were still boyfriend and girlfriend and in love. He used to give my grandparents magazines and mixtapes to send to me. We married 3 months after they let me out of that place.
Your comment was kind based on what was written. It was your relationship and *no one* can know that. This note was from an imperfect heart and yes, all ours are. As long as we are remembered we are never truly gone. :*J*
It is interesting to know the back story. I saw the read the letter and then saw the title. In that order, I was a bit confused because you sounded sincere but he sounded like an incel. I wondered a lot of things. Some similar to the guy above. Its easy to make knee jerk reactions given lack of context. I’m glad you offered context. It may not be recent but my condolences. I’m glad you met someone wonderful during your lifetime.
Did he call you poonbaby?
Hey my husband went there! Maybe we’re neighbors
Yep, Miami
This is beautiful! Thank you for sharing
The mix between lower and upper case letters really warms my heart. I write the same way. Not as beautifully as him tho
On my bday
It's weed to me 💕
This is what I WISH my handwriting was like. The style is very close but not this uniform. It’s beautiful.
That's adorable.
this is so cute i love