All comes ultimately from the same idea.

I thought that is was something like that.

Reminds me of Kurrentschift.

Wait, maybe it is Kurrentschrift—it looks almost the same.

It is Kurrentschift. The form used in Bohemia if I'm not mistaken.

Is it still in use?

No, here is how it evolved though:

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That is simply beautiful!

Seeing those uppercase G’s reminds me of something. My great-grandmother, who was born in 1901, came over from Sweden to Canada circa 1925. I don’t know where she learnt them, but her uppercase G’s had these really beautiful loopy patterns, like a cloverleaf but thinner. I’ve been trying to remember how she did them for years, but without success. Does anyone here know what I’m talking about? (If it’s relevant, my mom learnt her G’s in the 1960s at New Westminster, BC; they resembled the one on the General Mills cereal box logo.)

I dunno, but I write my uppercase Gs like those ones up there. (I copied to from my mom, grandparents, etc.) My last name starts with a G, so I use it a lot. (I don't like the normal cursive G they teach now—it looks ugly.)

I still remember annoying elementary school cursive teachers by refusing to write capital G the D'Nealian way.

Now that I think about it, I write a lot of my capital letters differently from standard English cursive. In general I hate it when capital letters are simply a larger version of the lowercase letters—especially when the printed form looks different.

a, m, n, u, w, y, z are prime culprits - I write all except u and y in a different way. (I can't think of a good way to write u and y in a different way. Any ideas anyone?)

Another cursive capital letter I don't like is E. I like my Es to have at least some sort of blockiness to it, not completely round like in D'Nealian—it looks like a lower case epsilon—ah, that might be why I don't like it, it goes with my other no capital should be a bigger version of a lowercase rule (Some people write their lowercase 'e's to look like epsilons). I usually end up writing my Es in a different way each time when I have to write them, and try to avoid the D'Nealian E.

M I haven't fully decided on yet either. Right now I write it like a handwritten lowercase mu, but if there was a better way to do it I'd be glad to know.

I looked up that D'Nealian you mention and it looks strange to me, nothing like I've seen before. I was taught in school pretty much like the final rows in the above picture I posted, although some letters like upper case S can vary, it can be written like the printed version as well and I write it as such when writing Slovak or English, while in Serbian class we were taught to write the S like the one above and I write it as such when writing in Serbian.