Apart from being a tool for assuring legal validity of documents, your signature can also reveal a lot more about you than you may realize. Graphology is therefore the science that determines the link between character traits and a handwritten signature.

Move through below styles and see which one is yours and know some facts related to your signature styles.

1. Initials:

A Person using only initials in his signatures tends to be Private and does not seem to share much information about his life with outside world.

For typical use, the majority of people nowadays use their full first name and surname. Those who choose not to and opt for use of initials instead of their full names will have one of two reasons:

a) They prefer the formality and reserve of the more ‘businesslike’ initials, in which case they are likely to have conventional, perhaps even old fashioned, values
b) OR
b) They deeply dislike their first name.

2. Right Slant

When your signatures are slanting towards the right, this indicates that you possess an outgoing type of personality. Can also be known as an extrovert or an outgoing, bubbly, outer persona.

3. Underlining

When you sign below your signature it indicates that you give much importance to yourself and always like to boast about your achievements, need for responsibility and importance. Betrays a lack of self-confidence and a need for recognition and status.

4. Signing Straight

You are a straightforward person if your signatures are easily readable. Such styles also tell that person is modest and possess confidence in dealing with situations. You're also sort to be balanced and even-tempered

5. Illegible Signature

This is one of the most common signatures. Such writers are always in a hurry. They say: “I have to sign hundred times in a day. I can’t write my full name…” There are two reasons they scribble. One, their mind is faster than their hands.

And second, they are hoity-toity rascals who tell others: I don’t care whether you can read my handwriting or not. I am just too busy to be bothered by that. I have no time for you…” Such writers seldom take total responsibility for things in their lives.

6. Strike through Signature

Look at the strike-through strokes in her handwriting. Such strokes in signatures reflect self-hatred, a tendency to stab and punish oneself . That’s exactly what the girl did.

If you have a signature with horizontal or vertical strike-through strokes, get rid of it because every time you do a signature like this, you reinforce whatever the strokes stand for. If it’s self-hatred, you will dislike yourself all the more and take rash steps to sabotage everything you have accomplished or achieved.

7. Signing in Style

Those who love to sign in the style often like to make a statement about self. Often they are very creative and if you see them they do everything in their own style. People with this kinda signature wants to be seen as a ‘star’, and is prepared to work hard at it!

According to atozhandwriting, "with the very deep understandings of what a person is really like from their signature, how they would like to be seen. It is rare for there to be no discrepancy at all between script and signature style, and the differences are usually very revealing."

Study them carefully, and always bear in mind the essential differences between the role of handwriting — to communicate information – and the signature — to say who you are.

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