What you can see in handwriting
Six things two people can point at. None of them is a personality. The science page is the limit for every section below.
Size
A letter is small, middling, or large next to the other letters in the same note. Compare several. One large capital at the start of a sentence is not the size of the hand.
Large writing is not confidence. Small writing is not intelligence. Size moves with the pen, the box you were given, and how fast you were going.
Slant
Look at a downstroke on m, n, t, or l against the baseline. Left of vertical, near vertical, or right of vertical. One letter is a weak sample. Italic models lean right, so a right slant is often the model, not a mood.
Spacing
Word spacing is the gap before the next word: tight, about one letter wide, or wide. A gap at the end of a line is that line’s margin, not word spacing. Teachers often ask for about one letter. That target is a lesson, not a trait.
Pressure
A photograph shows the ink that stayed. Darkness comes from the pen, the paper, and the camera. It is not how hard the hand pressed, and the picture has no clock, so it is not speed. Real pressure needs a pen that records force, or a tablet that does. This page does not pretend a photo has it.
Baseline
The baseline is the path of the line, not the slant of a stem. On blank paper a line can rise, stay level, or fall. A curled sheet, a desk that slopes, and writing without a rule all move it. On ruled paper the rule is doing the work.
Margins
The margin is the paper you did not write on. A narrow notebook makes a narrow margin. A long paragraph in a small box fills the page. A wide left margin is often room left for a comment. None of these is a need for privacy or a fear of space. Read a few pages in the same notebook before you call it a habit.
The bar of t and the dot of i
The bar of a t can sit low, in the middle, or high, or be missing. The dot of an i can sit close, high, or be a circle. Check several. A hurried note drops dots and bars. Graphology reads a high bar as ambition and a high dot as imagination. Those readings are not supported well enough to use. The test asks you to pick the closest t and the closest i. That pick files a shape.
One shape, one page
Questions
- What does my handwriting say about me?
- Here it says which of these marks you can point at. It does not say who you are.
- Can you tell personality from handwriting size?
- No. Size is visible. Personality is not in it.
- Does heavy handwriting mean a strong personality?
- A dark stroke is not heavy pressure. Pressure is not a personality score.
- What should I look at first?
- A few lines of ordinary writing, not the signature. Then slant, spacing, and size. Leave pressure out if all you have is a photo.