Cursive E (Capital & Lowercase)

How to Write a Cursive Capital E

1. Start with a hook at the top. Place your pencil a little below the top line on the right and curl a tiny hook up and over to the left.
2. Make the small upper curve. Arc across the top line and down the left side, then curve back in toward the middle of the letter.
3. Turn at the middle. Bring the curve to a short point just above the midline, near the center of the letter. This little turn is what makes it an E.
4. Make the big lower curve. Swing out to the left again in a larger, rounder curve that sits on the baseline.
5. Exit to the right. Sweep up and out to the right. In a word, this stroke flows straight into the next letter.

How to Write a Lowercase e in Cursive

1. Lead in from the baseline. Start on the baseline and make a gentle upstroke that slants to the right.
2. Loop at the midline. Curve up to the midline, over to the left and back down, crossing the upstroke to form a narrow loop.
3. Come down to the baseline. Continue down the left side and round off on the baseline.
4. Exit up. Swing out to the right with a short connecting stroke that rises toward the next letter.

Common Mistakes With Cursive E

Because e is so small and so common, little slips add up fast across a whole page.

• Squeezing the loop shut. If the loop collapses into a single line, the e looks like an undotted i. Leave a small, clear eye inside.
• Making the loop too tall. The loop should stop at the midline. Push it up to the top line and you've written an l.
• Writing a printed E as a capital. The three-bar print E doesn't join. The uppercase E in cursive is two curves with a point in the middle.
• Losing the middle point. If the upper and lower curves run together without a turn, the capital E becomes a big C. Make a small, clear point just above the midline.
• A top curve that's too big. The upper part of the capital is smaller than the lower part. Swap the sizes and the letter looks top-heavy.
• No lead-in on the lowercase. Starting the e at the top of the loop instead of on the baseline makes the loop come out backwards.

How E in Cursive Connects to Other Letters

Both forms of E connect in traditional cursive. The capital ends with a sweep out to the right from the baseline, so the next letter follows without a lift, as in Emma or Eli.

Joining into a lowercase e is easy from the baseline: the connecting stroke simply becomes the upstroke of the loop. Doubled e, as in sleep, is a good test. The second loop should match the first, with the join rising from the bottom of one into the next.

After o, w, v and b, the join comes from the midline, so there's no room for a long upstroke. The stroke dips just slightly and loops right back up, as in over. Many people make the e too small here; keep it as big as your other e's.

Copy and Paste Cursive E Symbols

These script E symbols are Unicode characters rather than handwriting. They paste into bios, messages and usernames, but they sit next to each other like typed letters and don't link up.

• ℰ𝒶𝓈𝓎Copy
• ℰ𝓁ℯℊ𝒶𝓃𝓉Copy
• ℰ𝓃𝒿ℴ𝓎Copy
• ℰ𝓋ℯ𝓇 𝒜𝒻𝓉ℯ𝓇Copy

Words With E to Practice

E appears so often that almost any sentence is practice. These groups focus on words that start with e and on the double e join.

• Short words: egg, eat, end, eye, elf, ear, east, easy
• Longer words: eagle, energy, evening, eleven, empty, engine, extra, elephant
• Double e and middle e: sleep, tree, green, coffee, queen, three, over, bread
• Names and places: Emma, Eli, Ethan, Ella, Eric, Egypt, Europe, Edinburgh

The cursive E capital mostly shows up in names. Write Emma, Ethan and Ella five times each and the capital will start to feel natural.