Variability in script as discerned through handwriting analysis suggests a flexible personality.
I’ve been asked before if it’s possible to change your handwriting, and what it means if your handwriting varies a lot.
To the untrained eye, several handwriting samples by an adaptable individual, someone who prides herself on multiple writing styles for example, may appear to be written by several different people.
But due to the fact that everyone’s handwriting is unique as their personality and fingerprints, and many handwriting analysis factors don’t vary much no matter how changeable the person is, the well-trained analyst will recognize the samples as having been written by one person.
It’s extremely difficult to fake variations in pressure, movement, organization, rhythm, contraction and expansiveness, zonal balance, and more; the sample would have signs of affectation. It’s also impossible to replicate someone’s handwriting.
As with any handwriting analysis trait, excess variability, or the opposite, can be a red flag. Moderate variability in middle zone size, slant, connectivity, originality, speed, pressure, angularity, and letter spacing, for instance, can suggest a versatile individual. In the extreme it can equate to an erratic and inconsistent personality. Very little can represent stubbornness.
An evaluation consists of over 300 handwriting analysis factors and the symbolism of any single factor, such as slant, is supported or mitigated by the collective force of the other factors. The handwriting sample is deconstructed in the analysis and then put back together to symbolize a subject’s strengths, weaknesses, fears, and defenses.
While variability throughout a handwriting sample is a good sign, too much or too little isn’t.
Copyright © 2016 Scott Petullo