I have occasionally come across the opinion that graphology is purely a tool for telling one’s fortune and this couldn’t be further from the truth.  Graphology is the study of a person’s handwriting and who they have become over the passage of the years.  Useful information can be discovered which will enable the writer to…

Whilst the French school of graphology continued Crépieux-Jamin’s detailed observation of signs, in Germany graphologists were starting to consider the psychological aspects of the writing, and between 1895 and 1920 methodical investigation of the psychology of handwriting resulted in the establishment of graphology as a science. Georg Meyer, a psychiatrist and William Preyer, a child…

AD 120 – Roman historian Suetonius always noted particular characteristics of the handwriting of the emperor whose biography he was writing, and in the 11th century Chinese King and philosopher Jo-Hau said “Handwriting infallibly shows whether it comes from a noble-minded or a vulgar person”. In Europe during the Middle Ages writing was an art,…