Cursive Capital Letters
The 26 uppercase letters of the cursive alphabet: what each one looks like on ruled lines, which ones join the letter after them, and how they are built.
Capitals are worth leaving until last. Most writing is lowercase, so start with the lowercase letters and their joins; the beginner’s guide sets out the whole order.
Capitals that join the next letter
These finish with an undercurve on the baseline, so the pen carries straight into the lowercase letter that follows.
Capitals you lift the pen after
These end in a loop, a curl or a crossbar rather than a tail. Finish the capital, lift, and begin the next letter on its own.
How the capitals are built
Grouped by where the first stroke begins. Each letter links to its numbered steps.
Start at the midline, on the left, with a small curl
- A — Start on the left at the midline with a small curl, then sweep up and to the right in one rising stroke to the top line.
Start at the top line
- B — Start at the top line and draw a slant stroke straight down to the baseline.
- D — Start at the top line and draw a slant stroke down to the baseline.
- F — Draw the top: a short stroke along the top line that curls slightly at the left end.
- H — Start at the top line with a small curl and draw the first stem down to the baseline, finishing with a short foot to the right.
- K — Start at the top line and draw a stem down to the baseline, finishing with a small curl.
- O — Start at the top line. Curve to the left and sweep down (counter-clockwise) to the baseline.
- P — Start at the top line and draw a slant stroke straight down to the baseline.
- Q — Start at the top line. Curve to the left and sweep down (counter-clockwise) to the baseline.
- R — Start at the top line and draw a slant stroke straight down to the baseline.
- T — Draw the top: a short stroke along the top line that curls slightly at the left end.
Start at just below the top line
- C — Start just below the top line with a small loop that curls up and to the left.
- E — Start just below the top line with a small hook, then curve up and around to the left and down to the midline, forming the upper curve.
- L — Start just below the top line with a small loop, then rise to the top line and loop over to the left.
Start at just below the top line, on the right
- G — Start just below the top line on the right with a small hook, then sweep up and over to the left, like the top of a large C.
Start at the baseline
- I — Start on the baseline and draw an undercurve that rises all the way to the top line, leaning right.
- J — Start on the baseline with an undercurve that rises to the top line.
- M — Start on the left at the midline with a small curl, then overcurve up to the top line.
- N — Start on the left at the midline with a small curl, then overcurve up to the top line.
- S — Start on the baseline with an undercurve that rises to the top line.
- U — Start on the baseline with an undercurve that rises to the top line.
- V — Start on the baseline with an overcurve that rises to the top line.
- W — Start on the baseline with an overcurve that rises to the top line and slant down to the baseline.
- X — Start on the baseline with an overcurve that rises to the top line.
- Y — Start on the baseline with an overcurve that rises to the top line.
Start at the top line, on the left
- Z — Start at the top line on the left with a small curl, then draw a level stroke across the top to the right.
Cursive capital letters practice sheet
Every capital once as a model and twice in grey to write over. Prints on one page. Capitals are used where they are needed, so practise them on real words: names, the days of the week and the months use ten different capitals between them, and the worksheet generator will rule a sheet of your own names.
Cursive capital letters A–Z
Model, then trace
Name ______________________ Date __________
cursivealphabet.pro — free cursive practice sheets
Capital letter questions
Which cursive capital letters connect to the next letter?
Capitals that end with an exit stroke join the letter after them (most on the baseline, A at the midline): A, C, E, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, Q, R, U, Y, Z. The others — B, D, F, I, O, P, S, T, V, W, X — end with a loop, a curl or a crossbar, so you lift the pen and start the next letter separately.
Are cursive capital letters harder than lowercase?
Usually, because they are larger, less uniform and used less often, so they get less practice. Learn the lowercase alphabet first: most writing is lowercase, and six capitals are essentially enlarged lowercase forms (C, J, N, O, U and Y), so they cost nothing extra to learn.
How tall should cursive capitals be?
Capitals reach from the baseline to the top line — the same height as the tall loops of b, h and l. Four capitals drop below the baseline in the letterforms used here: G, J, Q and Y. Z does in some other styles.
Do cursive capitals connect to each other when writing in all caps?
No. Cursive is not written in all capitals; capitals are designed to start a word and hand off to lowercase letters. If you need an all-caps word, most handwriting programs suggest printing it or using small caps.