How To Read What Signatures Mean

Handwriting analysis is a tricky business. At the moment, it’s up in the air as to whether the testimony of a handwriting analyst can be used in court cases, mostly because it’s hard to get a straightforward result from a piece of writing.

For instance, an analyst may think they have a fix on a person’s penmanship style only to find that they wrote a given piece from a weird angle and it usually looks totally different. Yet, in their journey to hammer out these bugs in their field, these analysts have apparently stumbled upon some common traits in handwriting that speak to certain personality types. So they’ve applied their findings to how we write our signatures because what’s more personal than that, right?

So let’s have a look at what they think with these 15 handy examples.

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1. A Downward Slope

If your signature slopes downward, it apparently means that you’re cautious in meetings and you weigh the risks before you act. It also suggests pessimism. However, if it slants upwards, it suggests you’re more ambitious and look towards the future.

2. Initials

If you sign with your initials, this is a sign that you’re a private person who doesn’t share that much about themselves. The fact that Mark Zuckerberg has this kind of signature is pretty ironic considering sharing is what Facebook’s all about.

3. Underlining

Underlining a signature suggests a sense of self-importance, while leaving the underline out apparently means you let your achievements speak for themselves.

4. Slanting Towards The Right

If your signature slants to the right, that seems to mean you have an outgoing personality. There’s no word on what slanting to the left means, but I imagine that’s pretty hard to do.