Handwriting Analysis is a projective technique like body language which can profile human behavior in the areas of social skills, thinking styles, achievement/work habits, and possible ways of dealing with stress.

It is a system of studying the frozen graphic structures which have been generated in the brain and placed on paper in a printed and/or cursive style.

It is a way to compare different personalities and their potential for compatibility in the areas of problem-solving, interpersonal skills, how they would fit into a team situation, and how they will react under pressure.

It is a method to view the emotional development of an individual relative to maturity and consistent actions.

Handwriting analyzing can tell a lot about personality

Large companies use graphology (handwriting analyzing) to check job applications

The police still use handwriting experts to determine who wrote what

Graphology or Handwriting Analysis is a science of interpreting a person's character from his/her personal handwriting.

Coupled with psychology and knowledge of human behavior, it can be used for many varied purposes. For example, Recruitment, Marriage compatibility, Career Guidance, Motivate workers, Child development.. etc.

Signature is not the best way to analyze character from handwriting, for several reasons.

1. Firstly, the Signature is sometimes illegible and different from the normal handwriting.
2. Secondly, the lone signature does not give enough words and letters to help the graphologist in his/her judgment.

But signature samples do have certain advantage. Firstly they are easy to collect; even over long periods of time.

Graphology can analyze a person's personality without the person’s knowledge that he/she is being analyzed. Thus reducing the possibility of inaccuracies due to conscious or unconscious effort by the subject to affect the result.

Distortion of the result due to the subject's knowledge that he/she is being analyzed is common in most Question-&-Answer type of personality analysis tools. It's better to use graphology to analyze the handwriting of a pure untainted subject , rather than to put the subject under unnatural stress of a long questionnaire.

Also, a single personality questionnaire may reveal a single dimension of personality. But two handwriting samples of the same person at different occasion may reveals different behaviour characteristics.