Dats Right

I was recently told about this concept called graphology, or the study of handwriting. The act of writing contains spontaneous actions for the purpose of communicating ideas. I had always known that you can tell a lot about a person based upon how they write, but I didn’t know how on point the descriptions really were. My friend explained to me that a person’s handwriting is truly the window to their soul, and based upon how a person is feeling, they may change the way they write. Looking at what I do on a daily basis, I know that I change my handwriting if I’m mad by writing messier and more aggressively. Something that really struck me is that those who tend to have more jagged lettering as opposed to a more bubbly style of penmanship tend to be more intelligent, vivacious, and creative. Those with bubbly lettering are often more open to new experiences and always try to get the most out of everything.

The four primary expressive elements are the baseline, the enclosure, the imposed structure, and the stroke. The baseline is the imaginary line that letters rest on while moving forward to the right. Horizontal movement along the baseline represents the individual's reaction to experiences, living values, time demands, learning (right motion- to advance, expand, and progress and left motion- to revert, constrict, and regress). So if you are a person who has a strong, very rigid movement to the right when your’re writing, that means that you are always looking towards the future, finishing what you start, and achieving what you set out for yourself.

The slant represents emotional responsiveness or reactions to immediate circumstances and/or inner feelings. A person who’ writing is heavily slanted to the right, could be described as motivated, emotionally strong and rather imaginative, whereas a person who’s writing is not slanted could be described as a stickler for details, and organized in various aspects of their life. An enclosure of a letter represents imagination, concept enlargement, and idea expansion. A person who does not close their letters fully may be free and uninhibited, expressing themselves as they choose, while a person who makes a point to close every letter fully can be considered determined and destined to succeed.

The stroke depicts life force, energy flow, libido. The stroke's pressure represents intellectual vitality, physiological energy, sexual passion, and emotional intensity; the stronger the stroke (the more pressure applied while writing) the stronger the aforesaid qualities will be in a person.
Here are some more examples of various styles of writing and what they can describe in a person. Take a look at how you write and compare it to these examples to see if they coincide with your personality! According to these, I am creative, independent, rigid, investigative, dynamic and compulsive; some of these are contradictory, but overall I feel that it is a pretty accurate psychoanalysis of myself. NOW IT’S YOUR TURN.

Thanks to HandwritingPro