Today the World Celebrates the Handwriting Day

• 01.24.2015, 03:41
•  No-politics

January 23 is the Handwriting Day. The aim of celebrating this day is to remind people of the uniqueness of their handwriting and the need to use it more frequently. No one would argue that the need to have such a day arose because of the increased spread of the use of computers, e-mails, messages and other technological innovations. Unfortunately this decreases the frequency of the use of handwritings. Maybe in the near future hand-written letters or postcards will become antiques.

The initiator for celebrating the day of handwriting was the Stationary Manufacturers Association, which fixed January 23 as the day of manuscript, writes Calend. It is interesting that the American famous statesman John Hancock, who was born on January 23, was the first person to put his signature under the Declaration of Independence.

The development of handwriting has a history of millennia. During this whole period people have tried to form a general idea about people by their handwriting. Aristotle, as well as the major figures of Renaissance wrote about the connection between a person's handwriting and his/her spiritual world, writes Rosbalt. 

Modern scientists distinguish 7 main characteristics for learning about a person through his/her handwriting – the letter size, the gradient and shape of the script, the direction of the handwriting, intensity of pressure, spelling and handwriting overall rating. Specialists think that there is a link between the peculiarities of the handwriting and the human nature, as it is the human brain that subconsciously directs the writer's hand. With the brain is explained the fact that in parallel with age the handwriting of people changes.