Cursive B

Capital B and lowercase b in a classroom cursive face, with stroke order, joins, fonts and a practice sheet.

1 stroke

Copy cursive B

Text styles that have both a capital and a lowercase form of this letter. Paste into bios and messages; some devices show boxes for the rarer sets.

Bold Script
Bold Italic
Heart Script
Star Script
Sparkle Script
Dotted Script
Arrow Script
Wave Script

How to write capital B

Start at the top line and pull a tall downstroke to the baseline.
Lift, return to the top and draw the upper bowl round to the midline.
Continue into the larger lower bowl, close it on the baseline and end with a small loop.

How to write lowercase b

Start at the baseline and sweep up into a tall loop, coming back down to the baseline.
Swing a small bowl to the right and back up to the midline.
Exit with a short stroke to the right at the midline.

Common mistakes

A common slip is letting the bowl of b drop to the baseline, which turns it into a looped l with a bump.
With the capital, learners try to join it to the next letter; B ends with a stroke that stops, so lift the pen and start the next letter fresh.

Joining b to other letters

The b ends at the midline, not the baseline, so the next letter starts from a short level bridge instead of rising from the line. That is why letters look slightly different after b.