The Queensland fonts are designed in strict accordance with the current Queensland Modern Cursive style (also known as QCursive) as specified in various resource materials published by the Queensland Department of Education. The QLD Beginner Yr 1-3 GT fonts are based on Year 1-3 Queensland Department of Education handwriting resources chiefly Alphabet Pack Year 1 (PR114), Letter book Year 2 (PR115) and Handwriting Pack Year 3 (PR121), published by the Open Access Unit, 1997.* The QLD Beginner Yr 4-7 GT fonts are based on The Teaching of Handwriting in Years 4-7: A Handbook published by Queensland Department of Education, Curriculum Development Services, 1984, Reprinted 1990 (ISBN 0 7242 4108 6). QLD Beginner Yr 4-7 GT is an evolved form of QLD Beginner Yr 1-3 GT and has more rounded, flowing and “natural” lettershapes. In the QLD Beginner Yr 1-3 GT and QLD Beginner Yr 4-7 GT fonts, the letters are unjoined.
Swiftshader 2 0 Tpb Afk. In the transitional QLD PreCursive GT font (based on the Yr 1-3 letterforms) the letters are unjoined but they have cursive exits and entries which the writer needs to master as they move towards fully joined writing. Queensland and Tasmania share a convention regarding the drawing of the lowercase “d” that is different to other regions – the “d” is drawn with an exit tail whereas the similarly-shaped “a” is not.
The Queensland (Qld or QCursive) handwriting style and handwriting font for use in Queensland schools. Linking for the cursive and speed loop fonts happens live and on the fly using our Smart Link™ Logic.
The stated reason for this is to prevent the student, who is new to writing & reading, from confusing d with b (being mirror-images of each other) and also from confusing d with a (differing only in the length of their vertical stem). The QLD Beginner Yr 1-3 GT and QLD Beginner Yr 4-7 GT fonts contain the d with a tail as the default lettershape but they also contain the alternate d with no tail as an option. The weight of the Regular fonts is intended to match the average pen thickness of the illustrations in the various Queensland Department of Education publications above. The Thick weight is approximately 170% of the Regular weight as per common typographic practice. The QLD Beginner Yr 1-3 GT fonts are available as Regular (with and without directional arrows), OutIined (with and without directional arrows), Dotted (with and without directional arrows) and Thick.
The QLD PreCursive GT fonts are each available as Regular, Thick and OutIined. These 10 fonts plus PDF Manual comprises the QLD Beginner GT Pack. The QLD Beginner Yr 4-7 GT fonts (Regular, Thick and OutIined) and the QLD Flourished GT (Regular, Arrow) fonts are also available but are not included in the QLD Beginner GT Pack. When fully joined, PreCursive becomes the Queensland Modern Cursive style. The automatically-joining fully cursive font QLD Cursive GT Pro is available as a separate package with its own Manual. The QLD Cursive GT Pro font is supplied in one weight which is slightly thinner than the stand-alone QLD Beginner Yr 1-3 GT-Regular, QLD Beginner Yr 4-7 GT-Regular and QLD PreCursive GT-Regular fonts to reflect the fact that, by the time the student begins cursive writing, they will be probably be using more refined writing implements such as ball-point pens etc.
Also, the lighter weight allows the cursive joins to be displayed more accurately and clearly. There are no Thick, Outlined, Dotted or Directional Arrow versions in the QLD Cursive GT Pro font. The QLD Cursive GT Pro font is a sophisticated OpenType font that will only function to its full potential in applications which are OpenType-aware and which recognize special OpenType features called Stylistic Sets. At present, the list of such applications is limited mainly to Microsoft Word and Publisher (2010/2011 & later), Apple Pages (v5.6 & later), Adobe InDesign, Quark XPress (2016 & later), CorelDRAW (X6 & later), Sketch and TextEdit.