Block letters, also known as printscript or manuscript, are a sans-serif style of Latin script where each letter is an individual glyph without joining. In elementary education, children often learn block letters before progressing to cursive handwriting. Official forms frequently request that people “please print” because block letters are easier to read and fit into boxes better than cursive. The term “block letters” can also refer to writing in all capital letters or mixed case, as recognized in legal contexts like patent cases. Handwritten block letters are more reliably processed by optical character recognition and are commonly used in crossword puzzles.
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