Handwriting

Analysis

Dictionary
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Lower
Loops
LINE VALUES,
TANGIBLE,
HARMONIOUS sense of
PROPORTIONAL
proportion, can see
LOWER LOOP WITH
balance and symmetry in
AN UP AND DOWN
personal relationships
STROKE BALANCE
and in physical
surroundings,
coordinates facts
VARIETY, DESIRE FOR
continuously wants to
change scenery and/ or INFLATED LOWER
associations, like LOOP
interesting and diversified
activities

CLANNISH meticulously
distinguishes and
separates a friend or close SMALL DANGLING
companion, suggestible to LOWER LOOP
object attachment or
fetish

CONCRETE expands and

elaborates personal
relationships and physical DEFORMED LOWER
surroundings in a LOOP
contorted or perverse
manner

FANTASY, CONCRETE
the exaggerated
expansion and INFLATED DANGLING
elaboration of an idea LOWER LOOP
producing possibilities for
an unreal situation

REGIMENTAL regulates
personal relationships,
TRIANGULAR LOWER
carefully controls physical
LOOP
surroundings, good
strategist
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SELECTIVITY
meticulously distinguishes
and separates friends
NARROW LOWER
from acquaintances,
LOOP
maintains rigid criteria
for choosing possessions
and avocations

LIVE UNTO SELF wants

to be detached from RETRACED LOWER
human relationships and LOOP
activities

ISOLATION wants to be
detached from human SINGLE DOWN
relationships and STROKE FOR LOWER
activities which directly LOOP
influences others

DETERMINATION
STRAIGHT LOWER
completes a delegated job,
DOWN STROKE
finishes tasks and projects

PUSHING
DETERMINATION
STRAIGHT LOWER
carelessly forges ahead in
FORWARD STROKE
completing a delegated
job

RESTRAINING
DETERMINATION
STRAIGHT LOWER
overly careful in
BACKWARD DOWN
completing a delegated
STROKE
job, places extra burdens
before completing a job

CHANGE, DESIRE FOR

LONG LOWER DOWN
restless to shift or get out
STROKE
of a specific real situation
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SHORT STRAIGHT
BACKWARD
BREAKAWAY
LAID-BACK feels no
UPSTROKE FROM A
urgency to do things
LOWER STROKE NOT
REACHING THE
BASELINE
REQUITED
perseverance, repeatedly
keeps on trying to return
equal value, wants
reciprocation for alleged
injustice or for gift or
favor
SHORT STRAIGHT
FORWARD
FOOT-TAPER feels the
BREAKAWAY
urgency to grasp
UPSTROKE FROM A
opportunities of
LOWER STROKE NOT
advancement
REACHING THE
BASELINE

FORESIGHT projects
LOWER
into the future a sense of
PROPORTIONAL
proportion regarding
CIRCLE WITH AN UP
worldly matters, capable
AND DOWN STROKE
of resourceful and
BALANCE
perspective
CLANNISH,
EXCLUSIVE
meticulously distinguishes
and separates a friend or
close companion, SMALL DANGLING
excludes and rejects LOWER CIRCLE
others from the
relationship, suggestible
to a particular object
attachment or fetish

TYRANT oppressive use

of physical conditions or TRIANGULAR LOWER
personal relationships, CIRCLE
strategist

CYNICAL,
BELLIGERENT looks for
INVERTED LOWER
injustice and exploitation
CIRCLE
in human relationships
and activities
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Upper
Loops
LINE VALUE,
INTANGIBLE,
HARMONIOUS sense of PROPORTIONAL
proportion, can see UPPER LOOP WITH
balance and symmetry in AN UP AND DOWN
philosophical matters, STROKE BALANCE
coordinates thoughts and
plans

DIVERSIFIED
BELIEFS liberal
INFLATED UPPER
philosophical values,
LOOPS
susceptible to various
religious concepts

FANTASY, ABSTRACT
the exaggerated
expansion and INFLATED DANGLING
elaboration of an idea UPPER LOOP
producing an unreal
philosophical value

HENOTHEISM
meticulously
distinguishes one faith SMALL DANGLING
and excludes other UPPER LOOP
beliefs, suggestible to
religious obsession -

DISTORTED IDEAS,
ABSTRACT expands
and elaborates on a DEFORMED UPPER
philosophical idea in a LOOP
contorted or perverse
manner

BELIEVER maintains
strict adherence and
TRIANGULAR UPPER
intolerant devotion to a
LOOP
creed or philosophical
value
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IDEALISM maintains
rigid criteria for TALL NARROW
choosing ethical UPPER LOOP
standards

JEALOUSY wants to be INITIAL SMALL

important and the only DANGLING UPPER
"big shot", alpha male, AREA INVERTED
or top dog LOOP

RESPONSIBILITY,
DESIRE FOR wants to INITIAL INFLATED
gain importance and to INVERTED UPPER
be a "big shot", alpha LOOP
male, or top dog

DEFIANCE looks for

injustices, misuse of
FORWARD INVERTED
power, abusive
UPPER CIRCLES
government, unfair
control, prejudices

REBELLIOUS open
INFLATED
hostility towards
TRIANGULAR
authority and for any
FORWARD INVERTED
form of discipline,
MIDDLE/UPPER
belligerent, skeptical
CIRCLE
predisposition

PERSISTENCE
A TIED AMPERSAND,
perseverance, repeatedly
UPPER BACKWARD
keeps on trying to return
LOOP ATTACHED TO
equal value, does not
A DOWN STROKE
know when to stop, to
MOVING FORWARD
retreat and to give up
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Upper &
Lower
Stems
PRIDE justified respect AVERAGE T, D-STEM
and esteem for one's HEIGHT
conduct

VANITY excessively TALL T, D-STEM

high regard of ones HEIGHT
conduct demonstrated
through a sense of
superiority

INDEPENDENCE SHORT T, D-STEM

conduct unshackled by HEIGHT
established customs

FORMALITY pays strict TRIANGULAR T, D-

attention to what is STEM
prescribed by custom,
strict adherence to
proper prevailing
conventions

DIGNITY conduct RETRACED T, D-STEM

conforms to proper
prevailing customs,
manners matter

SENSITIVE TO INFLATED T, D-STEM

CRITICISM overly
reacts or expands casual
remarks about conduct,
readily accepts flattery
and/or is offended easily
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OBSTINATE pigheaded, INVERTED V WEDGE
refusal to change one's WIGWAM LIKE T, D-
judgment, stubborn STEM

DELIBERATE HUMPED T, D-STEM

approaches situations of
conduct in a slow
leisurely manner

CAJOLE can be coaxed INFLATED I-STEM

with flattery or false
promises

PHYSICALMINDED, LONG P-STEM

DESIRE FOR desire to
flex muscles and
coordinate bodily
movement:

PHYSICALMINDED, PROPORTIONAL P-
SKILLFUL wants STEM
skillful action

PHYSICALMINDED, NARROW P-STEM

CONTROLLED wants
controlled precise action

PHYSICALMINDED, BROAD P-STEM

VIGOROUS wants
vigorous action
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PHYSICALMINDED, TRIANGULAR P-STEM
STRUCTURED wants
structured activities,
drills

PHYSICALMINDED, HUMPED P-STEM

UNHURRIED wants
unhurried action,
deliberate

PHYSICALMINDED, LONG BREAK AWAY

OFFENSIVE wants UPSTROKE OF P-
offensive action STEM

ARGUMENTATIVE HIGH INITIAL UPPER

readily debates any issue, STROKE OF P-STEM
quick to notice and
reveal a difference of
viewpoint or opinion,
feels need to state own
opinion
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Baseline
Direction
STEADY desires regular
HORIZONTAL
predicable settled
STRAIGHT LINE
existence without
BASELINE
variation

ROUTINE desires
regular predictable STRAIGHT LINE
settled existence without BASELINE
variation

OPTIMISM consistently
takes a hopeful outlook UPWARD WORD
on life, expects the best to BASELINE
happen

EUPHORIA displays
lighthearted cheerfulness
and exaggerated elation, CURVING UPWARD
convinced that the best LINE BASELINE
conditions are inevitable,
expects improvement

PESSIMISM gloomy
attitude attracts failure, CURVING
convinced that the worst DOWNWARD LINE
conditions are inevitable, BASELINE
expects failure

DEPRESSION
consistently takes a dim DOWNWARD WORD
outlook on life, expects BASELINE
the worse to happen
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INSOUCIANT
ATTITUDE
DOWNWARD THEN
unconcerned, carefree,
UPWARD LINE
believes circumstances
BASELINE
happen by chance or is
accidental

SUICIDAL TENDENCY
a sudden change in UPWARD THEN
attitude from hopefully DOWNWARD LINE
expecting miracles to BASELINE
anticipating doom

KALEIDOSCOPIC
NATURE unpredictably CHOPPY MULTIPLE
and sporadically changes DIRECTIONAL
attitudes, interests, and BASELINE
activities

VERSATILITY smooth
SMOOTH WAVY LINE
and flexible adaptation to
BASELINE
changing situations
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Line
Spacing
CLARITY OF
THOUGHT surveys life
activities and avoids
LARGE DISTANCE
confusing or entangling
BETWEEN LINES
them, appreciates
freedom for mental
and/or physical activities

CONFUSION OF
INTERESTS
INTERMINGLING
simultaneously pursues
BETWEEN LINE
too many mental and/or
EXTENSIONS
physical activities, cannot
handle abstractions
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Line Or
Stroke
Quality
EMOTIONAL
INTENSITY, MUCH
AVAILABLE possesses
HEAVY AVERAGE
strong libido and
STROKE PRESSURE
passions, abundance of
available energy and
vitality, proactive
EMOTIONAL
INTENSITY, LITTLE
AVAILABLE possesses
LIGHT AVERAGE
weak libido and passions,
STROKE PRESSURE
scarcity of available
energy and vitality,
reactive

EMOTIONAL
MUCH PRESSURE
INTENSITY, VERY
VARIATION ABOUT
ACTIVE expends all
AVERAGE PRESSURE
available energy

EMOTION
INTENSITY, LITTLE PRESSURE
SLIGHTLY ACTIVE VARIATION ABOUT
expends little available AVERAGE PRESSURE
energy

DEGENERATIVE
EXHAUSTION a
STROKE PRESSURE
physiological disturbance
SKIPS
interfering with one's
mental process

PHYSIOLOGICAL STROKE EDGE

DECAY deterioration of CORRUGATIONS AND
one's neural system SERRATION
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HESITATION,
INVOLUNTARY
inadvertently pauses MOMENTARY
before moving on usually INCREASE IN
indicated by a stutter, PRESSURE DURING
twitch, speech defect, STROKE MOVEMENT
short lived gesture, or
rest period

INITIAL
MOMENTARY
HESITATION mentally
INCREASE OF
pauses before moving on
PRESSURE PRIOR TO
STROKE MOVEMENT

UNSCRUPULOUS BASELINE STROKE

moral turpitude PRESSURE SKIPS

Difference
Beween
Available
Energy and
Active Energy

SENSUOUS large
capacity for indulging BROAD LINE WIDTH
appetites

ABSTEMIOUS limited
NARROW LINE
capacity for indulging
WIDTH
appetites, temperance

ADAPTABILITY TO PRINTED LETTER S-

STRESS an elegant SHADING DOWN
balance of one's needs STROKE ABOVE THE
and demands of others BASELINE
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PRINTED LETTER S-
GRACEFUL an easy
SHADING UPSTROKE
natural elegance capable
ABOVE THE
of evoking delight
BASELINE

SENSORY
DISCRIMINATION, DARK WRITING
STRONG an acute CONTRAST BETWEEN
awareness of perceptual "INK" AND PAPER
differences

SENSORY
LIGHT WRITING
DISCRIMINATION,
CONTRAST BETWEEN
WEAK a mild awareness
"INK" AND PAPER
of perceptual differences

SENSUAL vulgarity,
uncontrolled over- SMEARED BLOTCHES
indulgence of appetites
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Slant Of
Baseline
Upstrokes
IMPULSIVE readily
reacts to immediate
circumstances and/or MIDDLE/UPPER
inner feelings, excitable, BASELINE
actions based more on UPSTROKES
emotions than reason - SLANTED FORWARD
influenced by the (20 TO 55 DEGREES)
emotional content of
situations and of feelings
OBJECTIVE
DETACHMENT does
not readily react to
MIDDLE/UPPER
immediate circumstances
BASELINE
or is not influenced by
UPSTROKES
inner feelings, impartial,
SLANTED
action based more on
VERTICALLY (55-90
reason than emotion,
DEGREES)
indifferent to the
emotional content of
situations and of feelings
HYSTERIA overly STROKE-
reacts to immediate MIDDLE/UPPER AREA
circumstances and loses BASELINE
touch of inner feelings, UPSTROKES
loses control, influenced SLANTED
by the emotional content EXTREMELY
of situations, indifferent FORWARD (0-20
to feelings DEGREES)
WITHDRAWAL
outwardly appears to be
indifferent to immediate
MIDDLE/UPPER
circumstances and
STROKES SLANTED
retreats into inner
BACKWARDS (90-125
feelings, indifferent to
DEGREES)
the emotional content of
situations, influenced by
feelings

EMOTIONAL LITTLE VARIATION

RESPONSIVE, STABLE IN SLANT OF
consistent reactions to MIDDLE/UPPER
immediate circumstances BASELINE
and to inner feelings UPSTROKES
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EMOTIONAL
MUCH VARIATION IN
RESPONSIVE,
THE SLANT OF
CHANGING inconsistent
MIDDLE/UPPER
reactions to immediate
BASELINE
circumstances and to
CONSECUTIVE
inner feelings (emotional
UPSTROKE
memories), unstable

SPLIT PERSONALITY
changes emotional DISTINCT
reactions to immediate MIDDLE/UPPER
circumstances and to BASELINE UPSTROKE
inner feelings in different SLANT PATTERNS
time periods

SUPPRESSION MIDDLE/UPPER
frequently restrains DOWN STROKE
unacceptable emotional RETRACED BY
impulses UPSTROKE

MANY
REPRESSION
MIDDLE/UPPER
habitually restrains
DOWN STROKES
unacceptable emotional
RETRACED BY
impulses
UPSTROKES

OVERBEARING thrusts STRAIGHT FORWARD

philosophical conditions DOWNWARD UPPER
and beliefs upon others STROKE

STRAIGHT
INHIBITED restrains
BACKWARD
action with unnecessary
DOWNWARD UPPER
burdens
STROKE

BACKWARD
RESTRICTIVE stifles DISHSHAPE STROKE
activities based on RESTING ON
previous unfortunate BASELINE RETRACED
events WITH FORWARD
STROKE
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Middle
Loops
SINCERE honest, free
from falseness in PLAIN MIDDLE O-
approach to life, lacks CIRCLE
deceit

SECRETIVE
FINAL TOP LOOP
deliberately conceals by
WITHIN MIDDLE O-
omitting information
CIRCLE
from others

INITIAL TOP LOOP

SELF-DECEIT misleads
WITHIN MIDDLE O-
by rationalizing reality
CIRCLE

SELF-DECEIT, INITIAL LOOP

EXTREME lives or plays RETRACED BY
a self-imposed role MIDDLE O-CIRCLE

SECRETIVE,
EXTREME deliberately FINAL LOOP
conceals by omitting RETRACES MIDDLE
information from oneself O-CIRCLE
as well as from other

DECEIT, INITIAL AND FINAL,

INTENTIONAL DOUBLED, LOOPS
deliberately misleads WITHIN MIDDLE O-
others CIRCLE
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OPEN-MINDED willing
to receive and tolerate BROAD MIDDLE O-
other opinions or learned CIRCLE
viewpoints -

EXTRA STROKES
WITHIN AND
EVASIVE uses trickery
ENTERING THROUGH
to escape an issue
TOP MIDDLE O-
CIRCLE

FINAL STROKE OF
HEDGES, ILLUSIVE CIRCLE PASSES
allows an escape from BACKWARD AND
any issue taken OVER MIDDLE O-
CIRCLE

INITIAL STROKE
SECRETIVE,
PASSES FORWARD
PLANNED intends to
AND OVER MIDDLE
withhold information
O-CIRCLE

PLACID blindly accepts

harsh conditions or TRIANGULAR
concepts without MIDDLE O-CIRCLE
question

COMMUNICATIVE
readily conveys OPEN TOP MIDDLE O-
information or feelings, CIRCLE
talkative

UNCOMMUNICATIVE
does not readily convey CLOSED TOP OF
information or feelings, MIDDLE O-CIRCLE
reticent
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CLOSE-MINDED not
willing to listen or NARROW MIDDLE O-
tolerate other opinions or CIRCLE
learned viewpoints

NARROWMINDED
NARROW MIDDLE E-
fixed, limited self
LOOP
viewpoints, bigoted

BROADMINDED liberal
WIDE MIDDLE E-
self-viewpoints, free of
LOOP
bigotry

BIASED rigid self- TRIANGULAR

viewpoints, dogmatic MIDDLE E-LOOP

MUNDANE,
UNSOPHISTICATED LARGE MIDDLE
overly concerned with HEIGHT RELATIVE
the personal daily basic TO TOTAL HEIGHT
needs of living

WORRIER mental
INVERTED MIDDLE
disturbance produced by
LOOP ABOVE
exaggerating a minor
BASELINE
problem or concern

YIELDING amenable to
persuasions, easily A SOFTLY BENDING
influenced, chameleon- MIDDLE STROKE
like opinions

Middle
Patterns
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THINKING PROCESS
MIDDLE M, N-
manner of
VERTICAL
understanding, learning,
DEVELOPMENT
and reasoning

INVESTIGATIVE
INVERTED V-
THINKING searches for
WEDGES MIDDLE M,
originals sources, wants
N-TOP
to learn and to explore

ANALYTICAL
THINKING sorts and V-WEDGES FOR
separates information in MIDDLE M, N-
assessing their value, BOTTOM BASELINE
evaluates information INTERSECTIONS
and supporting patterns

COMPREHENSIVE
THINKING keenly alert NEEDLE-LIKE
to and the rapid grasp of POINTED MIDDLE M,
situations or information, N-TOPS
understands information

CUMULATIVE
THINKING slowly
accumulates information, ROUNDED OR FLAT
arranges information MIDDLE M, N-TOPS
into logical step-by-step
sequences

STRAIGHT FLAT
MIDDLE M, N-TOPS
CONSTRUCTIVE builds
PARALLEL TO
with repetitive small
BASELINE WITH
parts, goal to make
SHARP ANGLES TO
VERTICAL STROKES

SCHEDULE STRAIGHT FLAT

ADHERENCE exactly BASELINE
follows plans and duties CONNECTIONS WITH
with time tables, goal to SHARP ANGLES TO
work without idle time VERTICAL STROKES
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INITIAL SPIKE WITH
ENGINEERING
STRAIGHT FLAT
AWARENESS
MIDDLE M, N, R-TOPS
understands creative
WITH SHARP ANGLES
artistry and
TO VERTICAL
constructions
STROKES

EQUAL SPACING OF
TEMPO the ability to BASELINE DOWN
keep a repetitive beat STROKE
INTERSECTIONS

FLEXIBLE
SMOOTH MIDDLE-
MENTALITY easily
UPPER AREA
follows the subject at
CONTOUR
hand

SUPERFICIAL
THINKING lack of in
MIDDLE SHORT
depth reasoning,
FORMLESS SCRIBBLE
learning, and
understanding

THINKING
SHORTCOMING a
learning defect where
one cannot distinguish an CENTER PART OF
object, sound, or symbol MIDDLE M, N
in a background, cannot SECTION DOESNOT
read aloud, cannot carry REACH BASELINE
a musical note, cannot
pronounce a sound, or is
inarticulate
SELF-CONSCIOUS
unduly concerned about
INCREASING HEIGHT
being ridiculed or
OF M, m-SECTIONS
embarrassed, shy,
ABOVE BASELINE
difficulty in accepting
praise

TAPERING OR
DIPLOMACY
DECREASING
unobtrusive in
HEIGHT OF M, m-
influencing others,
SECTIONS ABOVE
tactful
BASELINE
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BREAK IN
INTUITIVE sudden
CONNECTION
insight without apparent
BETWEEN LETTERS,
evidence or verification,
STROKE LIFTS AND
aware of harmony or
RETURNS IN
lack of, cognizance of
DIFFERENT
fundamental truths
DIRECTION
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CONCENTRATION
focuses attention on one
SMALL WRITING
activity ignoring all other
influences

NOTICE, DESIRE FOR

wants to draw attention
to the fact that he is part
LARGE WRITING
of or belongs to "the"
group, gets distracted
with attention
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Horizontal
Spacing

EMOTIONAL
NARROW LETTER
CONFINEMENT severely
SPACING
limits or shows feelings

EMOTIONAL DISPLAY
WIDE LETTER
readily and excessively shows
SPACING
feelings

NARROW
ULTRA-CONSERVATISM
HORIZONTAL
opposes taking any chances
SPACING
for fear of consequences,
BETWEEN
hoards possessions
LETTERS

WIDE
EXTRAVAGANCE ignores
HORIZONTAL
the danger of taking chances,
SPACING
spends lavishly, unrestrained
BETWEEN
spending of possessions
LETTERS

COVETOUS inordinate desire

NARROW SPACING
for another's possessions and
BETWEEN WORDS
presence

ELBOWROOM wants
separation from another's
WIDE SPACING
possessions and no
BETWEEN WORDS
infringement on personal
space

INTRUSIVE wants NARROW

involvement in the affairs of HORIZONTAL
others or the group MARGINS
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DETACHED wants separation WIDE

from the affairs of others or HORIZONTAL
the group MARGINS

DESPONDENT desperately BACK FILLED-IN

wants involvement in the HORIZONTAL
affairs of others, seeking help MARGINS

Space
SELF-AWARE observes and
WIDE SPACE
reflects on self importance,
BETWEEN INITIAL
compares inner values to
CAPITAL
surroundings

A SINGLE SUDDEN
AND EXCESSIVELY
LOST OF SPONTANEITY WIDE SPACE
stops and compares present BETWEEN WORDS,
action or content of written A CONSCIOUS
statement BREAK IN THE
WRITTEN
MESSAGE

OSTENTATIOUS flashy and EXTRA

excessive displays FLOURISHES

REPEATED
SELF-INVOLVEMENT
PATTERNED
confusion of ideas causing
ENCLOSURES IN
chaotic thought patterns
THE SAME SPACE

ERRATIC AND
FRENZY dissipation of energy BIZARRE STROKE
through chaotic actions DIRECTION AND
SPACING
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Stroke
Finals

DECISIVE brings
matters to a conclusion, ABRUPT ENDING
does not vacillates

INDECISIVE vacillates,
does not bring matters FADING FINAL
to a conclusion

POSITIVE brings
matters to a precise
HEAVY STRAIGHT
conclusion with
MIDDLE AREA
certitude, sure of facts
DOWNWARD FINAL
or evidence, does not
vacillate

BLUNT brings matters INCREASINGLY HEAVY

to a conclusion and DOWNWARD/FORWARD
thrusts it upon others MIDDLE FINAL

EMPHATIC brings
INCREASINGLY HEAVY
matters to a strongly
STRAIGHT DOWNWARD
marked conclusion with
FINAL ABOVE
certitude, does not
BASELINE
vacillate

GENEROSITY
LONG CURVED
readiness to share with
ATTACHED
others (time, money,
UP/FORWARD BASELINE
sympathy, energy,
FINAL
things)
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LONG FORWARD
CAUTIOUS alertness to HORIZONTAL LINE
potential trouble FINAL ABOVE OR ON
BASELINE

CAUTIOUS, LONG FORWARD

CHRONIC habitual HORIZONTAL WORD
alertness to potential FINAL ABOVE OR ON
trouble BASELINE

STINGY unwilling to
share with another SHORT OR NO
(time, money, sympathy, BASELINE FINAL
energy, things)

SHOWMANSHIP
invites attention and STRAIGHT UPWARD
interest by dramatizing BASELINE FINAL
existing features

SELF-REPROACH
scolds self over previous BASELINE FINAL
disappointments or MOVING BACKWARD
previous conduct

SELF-CASTIGATION BASELINE FINAL

blames self for CURLING BACK-
unfortunate events DOWNWARD INTO
beyond one's control MIDDLE

PETTY excessive
EXTRA DOTS ON OR
alertness of details to
ABOVE BASELINE
potential problems
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LONG LOWER
AGGRESSIVE quickly BREAKAWAY
grasps opportunities for UPSTROKE CROSSING
advancement OR REACHING THE
BASELINE

TENACITY clings and

is reluctant to part with FINAL HOOK ON A
possessions or status HORIZONTAL STROKE
quo

Initial
strokes

ACQUISITIVE likes to
INITIAL HOOKS ON A
own and have
HORIZONTAL STROKE
possessions

RESENTMENT
indignant from a sense INITIAL MIDDLE
of being offended, of STRAIGHT FORWARD
being intruded upon, of UPSTROKE FROM
being required to do BASELINE
something, of losing

ANTAGONISTIC
alertness of being taken
LONG INITIAL
advantage of or of
STRAIGHT FORWARD
losing, inability to
UPSTROKE FROM OR
forgive and forget,
THROUGH BASELINE
hostile, ready to
retaliate and win

INITIAL MIDDLE/UPPER
SIMPLICITY operate
AREA DOWN STROKE
only with fundamentals
TO BASELINE
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INITIAL STRAIGHT
DIRECT operates
MIDDLE/ UPPER AREA
efficiently and only with
DOWN STROKE TO
fundamentals
BASELINE

HUMOR provokes
amusement from the INITIAL WAVY UPPER
contrast between reality AREA DOWN STROKE
and assumed values

TEMPER, PRONE INITIAL UPPER TICK

verging on anger over a STROKE ON
considered injustice or DOWNSTROKE TO
in action BASELINE

EXAGGERATE INITIAL
FACETIOUS
WAVY UPPER AREA
inappropriate humor
DOWN STROKE

FAULT FINDER draws

LARGE INITIAL UPPER
attention to the contrast
AREA DOWN STROKE
between reality and
TO BASELINE
assumed values
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I - Dots
ATTENTION TO
DETAILS accounts for I-DOT CLOSELY
all minor parts, ability to PLACED OVER I-
recall information, STEM
accuracy oriented

IMPATIENCE eager to
act with no delay, wants I-DOT TO RIGHT OF I-
speed up activity or STEM
thoughts

PROCRASTINATION
I-DOT TO THE LEFT
delays, postpones
OF I-STEM
activities and thoughts

IDIOSYNCRASY
contrasts self from others
CIRCLED I-DOT
by having eccentric, odd,
and different qualities

IRRITABILITY easily
annoyed by minor or JAB LIKE I-DOT
momentary disturbances

LOYALTY a belief that

one should adhere to a PIN LIKE I-DOT
principle

FORGETFUL inability
to recall information, MISSING I-DOTS
absentminded
 T – Bar
Vertical
Placement

PRACTICAL GOALS directs

T-BAR PLACED 3/4 UP
ones efforts towards feasible
ON T-STEM
achievements

DISTANT GOALS directs

T-BAR ON TOP OF T-
one's efforts towards long
STEM
range objectives

LOW GOALS self-

underestimation, severely
T-BAR CROSSES 1/3 UP
limits objectives by
ON T-STEM
consistently underrating what
one can accomplish

VISIONARY GOALS directs

T-BAR PLACED OVER T-
one's efforts towards almost
STEM
unattainable objectives

T – Bar
Horizontal
Placement

PRECISION accurate and

T-BAR EQUALLY
thorough in following
BALANCED ON T-STEM
procedures and plans
 IMPATIENCE eager to act
with no delay, wants speed up T-BAR TO RIGHT OF T-
activity or thoughts, plans to STEM
immediately finish things

PROCRASTINATION delays,
postpones activities and T-BAR TO THE LEFT OF
thoughts, plans to finish things T-STEM
later

TEMPER, EXPLOSIVE an
outburst of rage at another or T-BAR TO THE FAR
existing condition, short-fused RIGHT OF THE T-STEM
over unplanned delays

T – Bar
Direction

SERIOUSNESS OF
STRAIGHT
PURPOSE a sober concern for
HORIZONTAL T-BAR
self objectives

SELF-CONTROL purposely
imposes disciplined action for UMBRELLA-LIKE T-BAR
self-objectives

SHALLOWNESS OF
PURPOSE casual interest in DISH SHAPED T-BAR
self objectives
 LACKADAISICAL
PURPOSE makes light of self WAVY T-BAR
objectives

SARCASM lashes out with

bitter expressions at another FORWARD TAPERING T-
individual or existing BAR
condition

DOMINEERING orders TAPERING DOWNWARD

others and expects obedience FORWARD T-BAR

DOMINATION drives others HEAVY DOWNWARD

and demands obedience FORWARD T-BAR

INCREASINGLY HEAVY
DICTATORIAL controls
DOWNWARD/FORWARD
others and imposes obedience
T-BAR

LIGHTHEARTED expects
UPWARD FORWARD T-
plans to just happen, fall into
BAR
place, and should be doing
 FORGETFUL inability to
recall information or planned MISSING T-BARS
action, absentminded

T - Bars

WILL POWER the ability to LONG HEAVY

clearly define and become STRAIGHT FORWARD T-
eager about objectives BAR

WILL POWER, IN
RESERVE increasing desire INCREASING FORWARD
to maintain objectives HEAVY T-BAR
regardless of difficulties
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F , 8 ,
Capital
I , M ,
Printed
Block
Capitals
FIGURE 8
STRUCTURE PASSING
FLUIDITY the smooth
THROUGH BASELINE
transition from one
UPPER
word, thought, or action
PROPORTIONAL
to another, expresses
CIRCLE COMPLETED
abstract concepts and
BY AND ATTACHED
thoughts utilizing
TO A LOWER
concrete descriptions
PROPORTIONAL
LOOP
BALANCED F-
ORGANIZATIONAL
ENCLOSURES, AN
ABILITY desire to
UPPER
coordinate and to
PROPORTIONAL
arrange thoughts and
LOOP FLOWING INTO
actions into orderly
LOWER
structural systems,
PROPORTIONAL
desires balanced outlook,
CIRCLE TRANSITION
keeps to plans -
AT BASELINE
PRINTED SIMPLE
BLOCK CAPITAL I
WITH SERIFS,
VERTICAL STRAIGHT
UPPER
AUTONOMOUS follows
DOWNSTROKE WITH
own convictions,
EQUALLY BALANCED
balances self-directed
STRAIGHT
values with moral
HORIZONTAL
actions, cannot be led
STROKES
CONNECTED AT TOP
AND BOTTOM
SITTING ON
BASELINE
PRINTED SIMPLE
BLOCK CAPITAL M,
THREE VERTICAL
ARTISTIC STRAIGHT UPPER
INDEPENDENCE DOWNSTROKES
judges self-importance EQUALLY SPACED
by creative surroundings ON TOP OF
STRAIGHT
HORIZONTAL
STROKE
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Unique
Patterns
Capitals

EGOISM justified
confidence in one's AVERAGE CAPITAL
importance in relation to HEIGHT
others

EGOTISM excessively
high regard of one's
importance in relation to TALL CAPITAL
others demonstrated
through arrogance

HUMILITY excessively
low regard of one's
SHORT CAPITAL
importance in relation to
others

AESTHETIC TASTES
appreciates creative PLAIN PRINTED
artistry and structural CAPITALS
systems

CULTURAL
REFINEMENT
integration and
MIDDLE LETTER
discrimination of
PRINTED AS CAPITAL
creative artistry and
structural systems into
one's mode of living
PICAYUNE cannot
discriminate or separate
creative artistry from
BLOCK PRINTING
surroundings, attaches
FOR SCRIPT
importance to
insignificant situations
and structures

FIGUREHEAD,
DESIRE FOR attaches
self importance relative LARGE CAPITAL IN
to surroundings, wants to MIDDLE OF WORD
be considered a leader
and the authority
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