Letterpaths
Letterpaths is a free handwriting practice resource with letter formation materials aligned to the UK primary school curriculum.
What Letterpaths is
Letterpaths is a free handwriting practice resource with letter formation materials aligned to the UK primary school curriculum. Its generators create printable cursive, joined, print, and pre-cursive worksheets. The cursive generator makes sheets for words, names, and spellings, while print and pre-cursive worksheets can show guide lines, stroke order, arrows, and numbered starting points. Tracing activities include guided practice with plain, snake, or rollercoaster skins, plus freehand tracing using grey word shapes and checkpoints. The apps run in a browser and can be installed for a full-screen experience on tablets and phones; instructions are provided for Android and iPhone or iPad. Cursive worksheet settings are encoded in the page URL, so copying a link lets users save or share a worksheet. The associated cursive font works on the web and in desktop apps such as Microsoft Word or Apple Keynote. Letterpaths has no signup or adverts. Its public GitHub repository describes a TypeScript library that generates handwriting geometry data for other applications to render; the library does not render output itself.
Good
- Free to use with no signup or adverts.
- Worksheets cover four handwriting styles.
- Letter formation sheets can show stroke guidance.
- Apps support browser and full-screen mobile use.
- Cursive worksheets can be saved or shared by link.
Watch out
- The library does not render output itself.
- Curriculum alignment is specifically for UK primary schools.
Who it suits
Letterpaths suits UK primary teachers, parents, home educators, and teaching assistants preparing handwriting practice. It also fits learners who need printable letter-formation or tracing activities.
Verdict
Letterpaths offers printable handwriting practice and tracing resources for several writing styles, with mobile access and shareable cursive worksheets. Its curriculum focus is UK primary education, and its geometry library requires another application to render its output.
Plans and prices
From Letterpaths's own pricing page, checked 14 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | all resources · no signup · no adverts |
The facts
Each one read from Letterpaths's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Animation API
- compileAnimation converts a writing path into a timed player with speed, pen-up speed, delays and frame state.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Audience
- The cursive worksheet generator is described as built for UK primary teachers, parents, home educators, and teaching assistants.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Cursive generator
- The cursive worksheet generator creates printable worksheets for words, names, and spellings.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Cursive worksheets
- The cursive generator creates printable joined-handwriting sheets for words, names and spellings.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Development origin
- The maker says the library was created to help his children practise handwriting and to support games and worksheet generation.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Development tooling
- The project includes browser tools for editing letters, viewing the glyph gallery, inspecting joins and editing lowercase and capital kerning.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Distribution
- The maker says the library is available through npm for building applications on top of it.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The README documents layout, animation, tracing, curve methods, options and returned TypeScript structures with code examples.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Fading practice
- The fading-practice tool produces lined sheets whose trace words gradually disappear as practice progresses.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Font
- The project includes a cursive font usable on websites and in desktop software such as Microsoft Word and Apple Keynote.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Font compatibility
- The associated cursive font can be used on the web and in desktop apps such as Microsoft Word or Apple Keynote.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Formation annotations
- The library can generate renderer-agnostic formation hints including directional dashes, start arrows and draw-order numbers.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Guided tracing
- The guided tracing app lets learners trace words, names and spellings using plain, snake or rollercoaster visual skins.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Letter Constellations
- Letter Constellations teaches print and cursive letters by having users connect star points.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Letter formation
- Print and pre-cursive worksheets can include guide lines, stroke order, arrows, and numbered starting points.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Letter-formation worksheets
- The print and pre-cursive generator supports guide lines, stroke order, arrows and numbered starting points.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Library limitation
- The library does not render output itself; it returns data for applications to render.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The repository is released under the MIT License, allowing use, modification, distribution and sublicensing subject to the notice requirement.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: educator validation
- The maker states that he is not a teacher and asks handwriting educators for feedback on improving the apps.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: font polish
- The maker says font generation was difficult and remains imperfect, with discontinuities requiring human guidance.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: join quality
- The maker reports that some letter combinations still looked wrong and required a dedicated kerning editor because algorithmic joining had edge cases.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: letter variants
- The maker lists user-selectable letter variants, such as alternate x and f formations, as a future feature rather than a current capability.checked 14 Oct 2026
Money
- Freehand tracing
- The freehand app presents grey word shapes and uses checkpoints to assess whether drawing stays near the intended path.checked 14 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker background
- Robin Linacre describes himself as a data scientist, software developer, data engineer, economist and parent.checked 14 Oct 2026
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