I wish I had kept the handwriting of my maths teacher. I was in great awe of her as she wielded her pen like a cutlass. It slashed into the page so forcefully that it tore a deep gash that buried itself in the pages below and you could see the indentations for many pages that followed.

Messy handwriting is one of those subjects that often pops up in conversations about handwriting. There are so many myths and misconceptions about messy handwriting that it’s time to dispel them and put them in…

Barack Obama’s handwriting is interesting in that the body of the letter is very different from the signature. While the main body of the writing shows practicality and a lack of pretension the signature shows a vision of a much larger picture.

While there is an unpretentious simplicity in Alan Turing’s handwriting there are also signs that reveal his acute mind. Our second sample shows some moodiness in the rich lines and in the dark crossing out of words. Alan Turing’s moods played fast and loose with him; sometimes buoyant and at other times depressed.