Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> But I don't know what OP meant by
> saying that this or that handwriting is "based on" typefaces. That's
> backward.

Okay, not based on typefaces, but still based on a basic script which doesn't
connect the letters between each other. And you get different handwriting if
this basic script is a Blackletter or if it is an Antiqua. But I think nowadays no
more Blackletter based handwritings are used any more, with the slight
exception of the 3-shaped z-letter. Check out the following, there you have a
modern German handwriting and the old German handwriting:

http://www.dietschweiler.de/SUETTER/schrift.gif