Cursive F (Capital & Lowercase)

How to Write a Capital F in Cursive

1. Draw the wavy cap. Start a little below the top line on the left with a small hook, rise to the top line and run a gentle wave to the right, ending with a slight lift.
2. Start the stem under the cap. Lift your pencil and place it on the top line, under the middle of the cap.
3. Pull it down and curl left. Draw a slanted stroke down to the baseline, then curve to the left along the baseline and back up a little.
4. Finish the curl with a flick. At the end of the curl, make a short stroke out to the right, about halfway between the baseline and the midline.
5. Add the crossbar. Lift again and draw a short, straight bar across the stem, right on the midline.

How to Write a Small f in Cursive

1. Lead in from the baseline. Start on the baseline and make a long slanted upstroke toward the top line.
2. Loop at the top line. Curve over to the left at the top line and come back down, crossing the upstroke to form a tall, narrow loop.
3. Go below the baseline. Keep the stroke straight and carry on past the baseline, all the way down to the descender line.
4. Make the lower loop. Turn at the descender line and come back up beside the stem, closing the loop just above the baseline.
5. Exit to the right. Finish with a short stroke out to the right. This is where the next letter joins.

Common Mistakes With Cursive F

The small f has more parts than most letters, so it's easy to drop one. These are the common slips.

• Stopping at the baseline. The small f in cursive dips all the way to the descender line. Cut it short and it looks like a cursive l or b.
• Forgetting the lower loop. A straight tail with no loop leaves the stroke stuck at the bottom, with nothing to carry it into the next letter.
• Closing the loop too low. The lower loop should come back up to just above the baseline. If it closes down at the descender line, the join into the next letter starts in the wrong place.
• Bending the stem. The stem should be one straight line from the top loop to the bottom loop. A curved stem makes the whole letter lean.
• Skipping the crossbar on the capital. Without the short bar at the midline, the capital F looks almost exactly like a cursive capital T.
• Joining the capital F. The capital ends with a small flick, but in this style you lift and start the next letter with its own stroke.

How the Cursive Small f Connects

The capital F stands alone. After the crossbar, lift and write the next letter with its lead-in, as in Fred or Fiona.

The cursive small f joins from its lower loop. The loop closes just above the baseline and the exit stroke carries on to the right, so the next letter starts a little higher than usual. In coffee the double f shows it well: the exit of the first f rises straight into the tall loop of the second.

After o, w, v and b, the join leaves from the midline and climbs right into the f's tall loop, as in sofa. Keep the bridge short. If it droops, the f's loop starts too low and looks squashed.

Copy and Paste Cursive F Symbols

These F symbols are Unicode characters with a script design, not joined handwriting. Paste them into bios, gamer tags or captions; each one is its own character, so they won't connect like pen cursive.

• ℱℴ𝓇ℯ𝓋ℯ𝓇Copy
• ℱ𝓇ℯ𝓈𝒽Copy
• ℱ𝒶𝒾𝓉𝒽Copy
• ℱℯℯ𝓁 ℱ𝓇ℯℯCopy

Words That Start With F

F words are good practice for the long stroke from the top line to the descender line. Go slowly with the first few and keep the stem straight.

• Short words: fun, fan, fig, fox, fit, few, fly, fog
• Longer words: family, flower, friend, forest, farmer, finger, frozen, fifty
• Double f and middle f: coffee, muffin, puffy, sofa, often, gift, after, waffle
• Names and places: Fred, Fiona, Felix, Frank, Florida, France, Fiji, Friday

If your f loops keep tangling, practice the stem on its own first: one long straight line from the top line to the descender line. Then add the loops.