

Follow-up: I think people historically, and today, want numbers to take up not much space - historically so they fit in ledgers, but also because calculations take up so much space on paper so small numbers helps.
When people were doing bookkeeping they generally work slow and carefully, and can therefore afford to focus on legibility rather than resorting to cursive.
Cursive just opens up more potential for mistakes - misreading your own working, for instance.

Griselda - “Dark Battle.” Beautiful name. Maybe “grizzly” for short.
I love german names so much. Hildegard, Anya, Sonya…