Although I do not know to what capacity yet, I do want to include people’s handwriting into my own work. Handwriting is something that I am extremely interested in. However, as someone who profoundly creates art that has hand lettering and typography featured, if not predominantly made up of it, in their art work, I never thought that it be beneficial to understand the lettering because it is being forced. The alphabets and words that I create in different fonts and lettering styles are not made up of my natural handwriting, they are forced. Therefore does graphology have any impact on hand rendered lettering? I believe not. However, because this project, will more than likely be predominantly made up of handwriting from other people, I think it will be quite interesting to look into graphology and understand how some personality traits can be discovered simply through crossing the letter t  for example.

To start off, I believed that looking at a simplified version of graphological meanings would be useful, however, almost instantly I began questioning whether graphology was reliable because I was comparing some features of my own handwriting to the supposed personality traits of these features, and for many of these traits they didn’t relate to me at all!

The more I began to look at the features of graphology, the more I began to think that even I could make up my own assumptions on personality traits and some people may read them and believe them. I just found it a little hard to believe, personally. There are however, supposed to be over 5,000 personality traits that can be assessed through the analysis of handwriting. I still find it hard to believe that someone that doesn’t know you can analyse your handwriting and make assumptions about you. So, I did a quick little experiment to see whether Kathi McKnight’s (the graphologist I used as my research medium) graphological personality traits were correct.