What is Slanted Handwriting? What Does it Mean?
According to the fascinating science of graphology, your handwriting may reveal a lot about your personality, behaviour, and even general well-being. When you write, your conscious and subconscious minds engage in an intriguing interplay, creating a distinct ink trail that reveals secrets about your inner workings. We can solve the puzzles of your body, mind, and soul by exploring the nuances of handwriting. Individuality is clearly imprinted in each person’s handwriting, just as each person has a different fingerprint.
Graphology goes beyond just studying handwriting. It studies how one forms their letters – the pressure used, the size of letters, how curved the strokes are, along with a host of other details that unfold an individual’s underlying mental processes. Through these interesting techniques, graphologists interpret the true essence of the people whose handwriting they are examining. While there are so many unique ways in which handwriting is deciphered to understand various things about an individual, slanted handwriting also reveals several things about its nature. Let us understand more about slanted handwriting and what it means:
What Does Slanted Handwriting to The Right Mean in Graphology?
Slanted handwriting to the right mostly comes from people who appear to be highly outgoing and open. In general, they talk about everything. Slant, the focus of this article, identifies people’s levels of autonomy and reliance as well as their sociability and urge to form relationships and share their experiences with others. Carl Jung identified two essential attitudes that may be identified through slant writing – extrovert and introvert.
What Does the Slant Reveal?
When we wish to greet people we know, we tend to lean our bodies forward, but we do tend to maintain our stance when we meet a stranger or someone we are not fond of. Handwriting functions similarly, conveying our inclination toward human interaction.
The value of social interest motivates people to build relationships and hide shared interests from one another. Being able to connect with others and just doing it because one has to are two different things. At times, we try to form a connection, and even though we are naturally capable of doing it, we fail to accomplish it because of internal struggles such as anxieties, negative experiences, and low self-esteem. The more the writing is slanted to the right, the more significance we give to others in our lives.
Slanted handwriting to the right is associated with love, initiative, reflective capacity, and a propensity to be emotional and impulsive.
How is the Slant Measured?
Graphology is a way of studying the letters. There are certain areas of handwriting that are studied.
Letters lie on a baseline or a line. Every word or letter has an upper or superior extension, a middle area, and a lower or inferior extension.
The upper extension is spiritual thinking and intellect. The middle area is about social ethics, emotions, and daily routines. The lower extension speaks about intuitive and physical needs. Anything that slants to the right indicates an extrovert and a desire to interact with others. Words that slant to the left denote regression and devotion to the family, especially their mother.
Measuring Letter
Graphologists first draw the baseline where all or most of the letters lay to measure the inclination of letters. It is from here that the superior or upper extensions of the letters are measured – l, b, f, d, h – for their deviation from the perpendicular edge. Considering that the slant is to be studied, the letters are extended upwards to measure the angle that is formed with the line. Capital letters are easier to measure, as are ones such as those mentioned above.
In graphology, the term slanted means the letters have an inclination towards the right, but an inclination to the left is referred to as inverted or sinistrogyrous.
While slanted handwriting reveals something about an individual, other signs need to be studied for a more accurate deciphering of an individual.
Here are some interpretations of different types of slanted handwriting:
Lied Down or Dextrogyrous (Very Slanted Handwriting)
An angle formed by the upper and lower extensions from 30 to 45 degrees indicates a lack of objectivity, a loss of self-control, affection, and a clearly defined extroversion. Individuals, as such, show over-dramatization of emotions that, while initially positive, have the potential to become negative or bitter when they are even slightly disappointed.
Such people also show a loss of control, are impulsive, aggressive, and thoughtless, exaggerate the value of certain people and situations, and are also attention seekers or sometimes show that they seek love.
Straight Slant or Vertical
When upper and lower extensions form a 90 to 95-degree angle from right, the individual is generally known to have self-control. They can be calm, have a normal attitude, have immense control over feelings and/or desires, are mature in terms of conduct, are good observant, and think with clarity.
Such people are cold, indifferent, and do not mind being alone.
Moderate Dextrogyrous or Moderate Slan
When upper extensions are tall and slanted from an estimated angle of 85 to 90 degrees, it reveals a balance between sentiments and logic. Such people are extroverts, very intelligent, and they have the ability to contemplate.
Right Slanted – Such is kind and sympathetic, honest, likes to give and receive affection, and can easily adjust to situations. However, they can also be conservative and like to follow their customs or a fixed daily routine. Some can also, like opposition, be thoughtless and resistant.
Sinistrogyrous or Regressive or Left Slanted Handwriting
If letters are slanted to the left, then individuals are known to have a defensive attitude – that of rejection and suppression. Such people are introverts and are unable to express themselves. They also have not received love and affection in their childhood. Such individuals do not like to get into conflicts and cannot trust others easily. They are also egoistic and, at times, narcissistic. They may not be very innovative in terms of novel ideas, but they do things with concentration. They are prudent, discreet, cautious, insecure, and reserved. They find it difficult to socially blend themselves – this type of handwriting is very hard to interpret.
Slanted to the Left or Very Sinistrogyrous
Individuals with this type of writing often have personal problems. They are introverts, escapists, frustrated, reserved, disguised, lack of adaptation, isolated and depressed. They are also hypocrites, liars, egoistic, and false.
Moderate Inverted or slanted to the left
People with such handwriting look to escape certain situations or avoid them completely. They tend to withdraw, have little confidence, cannot build social relationships, lack honesty, and are always disguised.
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