This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...parts will survive in the resulting type signature, but the breadth of the space covered by the blur, and the parallelism of the faint lines will give evidence of the extent to which these ornaments have grown from caprice to a habit. As a general rule, there are several places--sometimes as many as eight or ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...parts will survive in the resulting type signature, but the breadth of the space covered by the blur, and the parallelism of the faint lines will give evidence of the extent to which these ornaments have grown from caprice to a habit. As a general rule, there are several places--sometimes as many as eight or nine in a long signature--where the maximum darkening of the lines indicates a general conformity of the pen's path to one direction, and it would seem that these places were-not peculiar to any one part of a letter, nor less in a hair-line than in a heavy stroke. They appear to be dependent upon the anatomy and muscular structure of the individual, and his method of performing the act of writing his signature. For instance, some writers can only form one or two letters without moving the writing hand, and only a word or so without shifting the elbow; others describe with the forearm of the writing hand a curve around the elbow, which latter remains stationary; others slide the forearm along into parallel positions while writing. All these habits have different effects upon the handwriting, though they are not always to be easily detected, owing to the fact that other habits are cultivated at the same time to counteract the defects which each of these methods, when not so compensated, would have impressed upon the appearance of the chirography. Thus, he who writes with a definite part of the arm pivoted immovably upon the table must learn to move the fingers over a greater space at some part of the line, to avoid the curve which would unconsciously result. This more vigorous movement of the fingers is naturally likely to produce heavier strokes in the part of the signature where the compensation is applied. So that a fixed forearm and heavy...
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