About Alphabet Atlas

Alphabet Atlas shows how letters are written: every letter of several alphabets, stroke by stroke, on ruled paper, with tools to trace, print and convert. It is run by Stellar Capital.

How the letters were made

Cursive letters follow a US Traditional model. We traced each letter's centre line over an open-licence school handwriting typeface (Playwrite US Trad, SIL Open Font License), then set the stroke order and direction by hand, one letter at a time, and measured the drawn stroke against the model. The animation, the tracing guide, the worksheet and the downloadable images all draw from the same stroke data, so what you see on screen is what prints.

Hiragana and katakana strokes are derived from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0). The Hebrew shapes are our own schematic block letters and are marked for review by a native reader. Print, Greek, Russian and Korean letters are drawn directly as strokes from the standard orders taught in schools: top to bottom, left to right, circles counterclockwise from the top right. Several Cyrillic lowercase letters are small versions of the capital shapes, which is how many Russian handwriting guides show them.

What may differ at your school

Stroke order and the shape of some capitals vary between schools and programs. Where a model is not universal, the page says which style it shows. If your teacher's handbook differs, follow the handbook; it takes priority over any website.

Fonts and licences

The bubble, graffiti and Old English generators use Rubik Bubbles, Rubik Spray Paint and UnifrakturCook, all under the SIL Open Font License. Page text uses Instrument Serif and Hanken Grotesk, also open licence. Letter shapes were drawn by us.

Privacy

There are no accounts. The tools run in your browser and the text you type is not sent anywhere. See the privacy page.

Report a mistake

Found a letter that is drawn wrongly or a stroke order that differs from a standard handbook? Tell us on the contact page, with the letter and the model you were taught. Corrections are made to the stroke data and show on every page that uses it.