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At last we come to the end of the lower case alphabet, the letter Z. The letter Z is kind
of an, well I said T was an anomaly, so let's just say the letter Z is an odd letter. So
one, two, three. Now we want this letter to slant forward. Something funny happens with
our pen here. See what happens? It gets very thin. We don't have any of these thin lines
for spines anywhere else in the italic alphabet. So it's my preference to take the pen and
turn it. See I've turned the pen. It's no longer at forty-five degrees, it's now at
zero to make the spine of the Z, and then to turn it back to the normal slant. Which
gives what I consider to be a more normal looking letter. It doesn't look cartoonish
or Barnum and Baileyish. Now sometimes it's fun with the Z, see I'm turning the pen I'm
thinking about it, to make a little bit of a flourish to the finish of the letter. You
have to realize that the letter Z only occurs about once in every one thousand letters,
so I don't think it's too much of an imposition to turn the pen for the Z. So there we are.
The letter Z. I'll give one big flourish and then we'll be done. Z, last letter of the
italic, lower case alphabet.