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[aguidetographology]

What does your handwriting look like?

oh my dear my handwriting is what is commonly know as a “hot mess.” But here are some pictures since you’re curious

(if you would like to see this poem in all it’s captain america trash glory you can go here)

-Ray

[aguidetographology]

hey there! I am currently doing a psychology project on graphology, and I was wondering how to test my subjects for linking personality to their handwriting! Thanks.

Hmmm I’d believe that the best way to do this would be to give a survey like they do for a job application (be sure to emphasize that no information will count against them), analyze their handwriting the best you can and compare with their survey results. Probably best to do this anonymously as well just so people don’t feel judgement of any sort.

Analyzing personality is a difficult thing and surveys are traditionally unreliable.  Perhaps ask your teacher or professor what they would use to study a person’s personality and work from there.

-Anderson

[aguidetographology]

In your last answer you mentioned being able to tell MBTIs by handwriting. Any chance you could go more in depth on that? Also, i'm so envious that you saw WTNV. How was it?

first, NIGHT VALE WAS AMAZING I’M STILL CRYING ABOUT HOW GREAT IT WAS. 

Second, I’m going to be honest MBTI from handwriting isn’t exactly my forte. Though a lot of traits can be ascribed to different types. For example if someone has tall letters and therefore a pronounced upper zone combined with a small middle zone with an average lower zone I would probably type them as an NT. Introversion/extroversion can be guessed from the size of lettes (the larger and rounder the more extroverted and feeling, the smaller and angular the more introverted and thinking.) the judging/percieving split is always the hardest to determine and if I ever do try to type you I can almost gaurentee that I’m pretty much guessing on this one. Please don’t hold it against me.

It’s much easier to do than it is to explain (even though neither of these come easy to me fun times) but I hope you get the idea at least.

-Ray

[aguidetographology]

Is it possible to find out what profession is for someone by handwriting style?

Kind of. Because you can tell personality through handwriting it’s possible you could figure out what career they would be comfortable in. Actual competancy would be harder to determine. Wolfy used to enjoy trying to give people’s mbti type through their handwriting and was generally very good at it. So if you want you could send in a sample and I could try to type you and then you could research from there.

For example the person who submitted this is a very logical person who doesn’t have time for things they consider “extraneous”. They wouldn’t really enjoy customer service jobs because they are so straightforward. They would likely prefer a job that gives them freedom to work on their own without being the leader of a group. I’m not quite sure of any examples but I’m sure you could figure something out.

This writer is very friendly. They can be a bit shy but generally they are a pleasent person to be around while likely prefering to not being in the spotlight. So a TV news reporter would not be the job for them.

See how it’s easier to find things you would hate rather than things you would like? There are so many careers out there but if you know yourself you can probably narrow down your choices. 

-Anderson

[aguidetographology]

Hi! Are the submitions right now open? Also, does it matter if I write in another language that is not English? Thanks a lot and I love your blog :DD

Submissions are closed right now and will probably not open for a few weeks. I’m sorry about that but my life is kind of a wild ride right now. 

I love it when people write in other languages! The same general ideas of graphology apply no matter what language you’re writing in and I find that when people write in the language they’re most fluent in the writing is more natural. (there’s actually a few studies that show people who speak more than one language think differently according to whichever they are using so it’s fun to take that into account when analyzing. Here’s a great freakonomics episode on foreign languages if you want to learn more).

-Ray

[aguidetographology]

when will your submit reopen?

As soon as Ray can stop crying over calculus and blasting Imagine Dragons some work might actually get done.

-Anderson

[aguidetographology]

what does it mean if the i's are dotted with x's? I've looked but I can't find much about that. I did read that i's dotted with circles are a sign of wanting attention, apparently.

You're correct! Many times i-dots that aren't actually dots (or dashes) indicate a need for attention or immaturity. Xs are probably indicative of the same thing but less intensly so. It still takes more strokes to make an X than a dot but less concentration than completely closed circles (curved but not circular i-dots mean something else. generally to do with positivity depending on the curce) so such a writer would be immature but not necessarily young.

-Anderson

[aguidetographology]

Hi there I can only use mobile and I'm having trouble submitting, if I posted a picture of my handwriting and tagged the blog would you still be willing to analyze it?

On the tumblr mobile app as far as I can tell (since I'm still operating on ios6) there isn't a way to submit anything. You have to open the browser and go to aguidetographology.tumblr.com/submit to submit anything.

I don't take submissions that way becasue then everyone would be tagging agtg in their handwriting and it's not fair when I can't even stay on top of the samples submitted.

-Ray