Cacography vs. Calligraphy — What's the Difference?

Cacography is deliberate comic misspelling, a type of humour similar to malapropism.The term in the sense of "poor spelling, accentuation, and punctuation" is a semantic antonym to orthography, and in the sense of "poor handwriting" it is an etymological antonym to the word calligraphy: cacography is from Greek κακός (kakos "bad") and γραφή (graphe "writing"). A common usage of cacography is to caricature illiterate speakers, as with eye dialect spelling.

Calligraphy (from Greek: καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing instrument.

Bad handwriting.

The art of decorative handwriting.

Bad spelling.

Works in decorative handwriting considered as a group.

Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.

Handwriting.

Poor or illegible handwriting.

(uncountable) The art or practice of writing letters and words in a decorative style; the letters and words so written.

Incorrect or bad writing or spelling.

(countable) Any such style of decorative writing.

Poor handwriting

(countable) A document written in decorative style.

Fair or elegant penmanship.

Beautiful handwriting