Why The Pen Is Mightier...


"Don't sign away your innermost secrets..."

Each time you sign your name you're showing the world a piece of your brain. Why else would we dedicate so many hours of our adolescence to getting our signature right? The writer uses his/her signature to tell you what they want to say about themselves. To get a more realistic picture of the person as a whole, we have to consider other components.

  • PRESSURE:

      Writing which shows through the back of the page suggests energy, drive, physical strength and confidence.

  • MOVEMENT:

      Someone whose writing rushes headlong along the page may be more motivated than someone whose writing is more self-contained.

  • SIZE:

      How much room the words take up indicates how the writer feels about (him)herself. Many politicians have big flamboyant handwriting, i.e. they like to take centre stage.

  • CONSTRUCTION:

      Those who construct letters the way they were taught at school are probably happy with convention. Those with simple skeletal forms are likely to be more theoretical.

  • DISCREPANCIES:

      If someone writes a text with small letters and ends with a big surge for a signature, they're trying to compensate for something, Some people have large writing but very light stroke-that seems false. Exaggerated writing arouses suspicion too. It suggests that the writer is trying to cover something up.


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