By Alex Daniel

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You might think of it as little more than a line of ink, but a signature can actually reveal a whole lot about the person writing it. Think, for a second, about what a signature really is—a statement, repeated and refined over decades, that serves as a one-of-a-kind representation of an individual. It binds you to legal documents. It authorizes your purchases. In other words, it's yours—and that's why signature analysis is so revealing.

Is your signature big or small? Messy or neat? Do you sign in the center of the dotted line, or a little bit to the right? It turns out all of these things can offer a major glimpse into who you are. Here, straight from handwriting analysts, are all the ways your John Hancock is a window into your personality. And for more on what your penmanship says about your inner self, This Is What Handwriting Analysis Reveals About You.