Graphologist Annette Poizner (see STORY) reveals the secrets and traits hidden in your own handwriting:
Perfectly vertical/upright slant: Objectivity, formality, poise. The writer is more reserved. He or she looks at a situation from the sideline and decides how emotionally involved to become.
Left slant: More strongly reserved than the upright slant. Usually introverted. Highly private. These people hold their cards to the chest.
Small writing: Introversion, strong concentration skills, intelligence and humility. If the writing is too flattened out or too tight, some type of repression or inhibition may be indicated. Ive seen librarians who write like this.
Rounded: My teacher used to say that loops are the avenue of emotions. The more loops, the more emotional the personality. Visual interest in beauty or beautifying the environment. True to the letter form, they honor how something should look. These people often have an inclination for dressing well, interior design and the like.
Printscript: The writer who sometimes prints and sometimes writes cursive. A given word may have points where letters are attached and others where letters are printed. This is an expression of intuition and writing ability. When I assess journalists, most use printscript.
Angular writing: More detached, analytical, objective, usually the writing of engineers, scientists, people who think about issues without troubling over emotions. These writers stripped down their handwriting and they dont care about the form of the letters that much. They abbreviate the letters. These are dispassionate people. They tend to be black or white thinkers.
Rigid/perfectionistic: It looks like it came right out of the typewriter with a perfect font. These people are demonstrating a repressive nature which has them potentially suffering from compulsive symptoms and catering to what others think of them too much. These are the perfectionists. They love to do it right but tend to also be very control-oriented and have a hard time being spontaneous or just relaxing. They suffer from muscular tension.
Large spaces between words: Normally there should be only one character width between one word and the next. Difficulty bridging the emotional gap between him or herself and others.
Crowded words: Less than one character width. Needy.
Crashing: for some writers, the lower zone of one line intermingles with the upper zone of the line below. When you see this sign in a writing, this is an individual who daydreams, watching internal TV.
Firm, straight baseline (the line of the text as it moves across the page): This is the person with a strong work ethic. Very reliable. When the baseline is wavy the issue is moodiness, potential difficulties with discipline, and possible medical issues.
Haste: Strong attention to i dots and other details and letters carefully formed indicates a writer who prefers to be slow and thorough. Messy writing which races across the page: the individual works at a fast tempo. May not be great with detail but prefers to be busy, dynamic, multitasking. Prefers lots going on.
