Korthic Shorthand
A cursive, orthographic shorthand that strives for legibility, and happy wrists. Designed with modern tablets in mind, and open-licensed for you to extend and share.
What’s it look like?
Like this:
How hard is it to learn?
It’s easy. Korthic’s a 1:1 replacement for English letters with only a handful of simple rules. Mostly, you just need to learn new letters.
Why does it exist?
Because in the process of writing hundreds of pages on my Remarkable tablet I learned that printing English letters quickly hurt my wrists. Writing in cursive solved that problem, but I struggled to read what I’d written when writing quickly. Too many of the letters looked alike.
Shorthands promise quick writing that’s easy on the wrist, and many of them are beautiful to look at, but some required precise control, some wandered up and down the page, some required memorizing a hundred special cases, or weird rules regarding spelling or pronunciation. Korthic is my attempt to build a shorthand that solves these problems in a way that works for my brain.
After months of using it I’m happy to share Korthic v2.0 with you.
To learn more download the PDF, and maybe check out the PDF of example words.