Cursive c begins with a small hook at the midline before the curve starts — the printed c has nothing of the sort.
Written in the traditional US school model — the looped, joined cursive of the Zaner-Bloser and D'Nealian copybooks, which is the model every sheet on this site is set in.
Capital C is the same open curve at full height, with the same hook at the top.
Closing it. Carry the curve all the way round and c is an a — the two letters begin with the same movement and part at the last moment.
Print at 100% on US Letter — not “fit to page”. The ruling is classroom size, and scaling the page down makes every letter the wrong size; the 10 cm scale at the foot of the sheet is there to check against. Every block gives you a model row in full ink, a pale row to trace over and empty ruled rows of your own.
All twenty-six on one page: the cursive alphabet chart.
Write the sheet by hand, photograph it, and our AI scores letter formation, spacing and slant against the same model you traced.
Check your handwriting freeIn the course, c is taught with the letters that share its movement — that is where to go once the shape itself is no longer the problem.
Oval Family: a, c and d The full cursive course