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In what sense is the latter font "cursive"?

I’ve seen actual cursive code fonts (just one, I think. Maybe someone knows which one I’m talking about) and this isn’t it. I’m assuming the stylized terminal/descender (particularly on the “t” and “f”) are probably what are causing it to be described this way.

Edit: I’m blind and didn’t see the comment on the bottom :/ This is the cursive font I’m talking about.

That’s <s>Operator</s> Dank Mono Italic.

It’s great to finally know what that font is. (And avoid it personally, to be honest…)

Actually upon closer inspection it seems to be a font that’s very close to Operator Mono Italic but not exactly it... So don’t take my word for it, I guess.

Edit: Okay, it's Dank Mono. Should have checked the font options on the website.

Some of the letters in the comment do look like cursive

I think he refers to the ligatures

I don't think it's very controversial to call Operator Mono Italic a cursive font.

Edit: In case it wasn't clear, only the font used for the comment is cursive.

Ah, thanks, I had missed the comment entirely, so I mistakenly thought you were taking about the distinctive "f" in the code font.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive:

“style of penmanship in which some characters_are_written_joined_together in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to block letters.“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_letters:

“a sans-serif. (or "gothic") style of writing Latin script in which the letters_are_individual_glyphs, with no joining”

Here, the s and the l look like they are cut out of some cursive text, but even they clearly are individual glyphs. The other letters in this example to me clearly are block letters.

Examples of truly cursive fonts are Lucida Handwriting and Zapfino.

Having said that, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italic_script) describes italic as semi-cursive, and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_script has a few other ‘cursives’, some of which don’t connect letters.

> I don't think it's very controversial to call Operator Mono Italic a cursive font.

What do you think cursive means? It means joined up writing. All the letters in this entire screenshot are separate - not joined up.

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