Don’t be so sure you know what a lowercase G looks like (2018)

Did many people ever write looptail g to begin with? (EDIT: in recent times) They try to make the connection to people handwriting less, but I've only ever seen the looptail g in fonts (such as in the HN comment input box) to begin with.

I really don't think it's surprising at all that people can't actively reproduce an archaic version of a letter that is as far as I know not really taught anywhere.

To my knowledge the looptail basically only exists in print, so why anyone ought to be able to write it is a mystery to me.

Neat. It reminds me of the study that asked people to draw bicycles:

https://road.cc/content/blog/90885-science-cycology-can-you-...

Hm, odd, I'd have expected it to be drawn roughly analogously to the cursive g but the bottom loop is connected to the other side of the top loop with respect to a cursive g. I wonder what the origin of that discrepancy is.