After the Denver Nuggets became NBA champions on Monday night, players, staff and owners quickly were handed hats that appear to have a typo, reading CHAMPIANS instead of CHAMPIONS in cursive writing.

Handwriting fonts resurrect a lost cursive art. Creative Notes By Jay J. Nelson, DEC 30, 2010 9:30 pm PST. I don’t particularly like my handwriting—neither did my third grade teacher.

Analysis of United States Patent and Trademark Office data shows that while in 1970, 12.4% of new U.S. wordmarks were in cursive, the number dipped to 4.7% in 2000 before rebounding to 7.2% this year.

Before 2009, most kids were taught cursive writing in the third grade. However, it was 2009 when the Common Core State Standards Initiative was launched; it didn’t require, or even suggest for ...