DIY Life

So you love detective work but don't have the stomach for CSI -- what's a mystery lover to do? Take up graphology! Graphology is the study of handwriting and how it relates to human psychology.

Graphologists say that they can learn a lot about a person simply by studying their signature. For instance, round signatures tend to mean that a person is reliable, while an illegible signature may mean you are keeping a secret.

Graphology is far from a science and its use is controversial. But since we're not trying to prepare evidence for a court of law and instead are trying to have a little fun, let's give it a whirl. Learn a few tricks about how to decipher your own handwriting here, and follow along as I analyze my own in the gallery below.

My dad always told me that he could never read my writing, but his rooster scratchings were ten times worse than mine. All of my brothers take after my dad; seems he taught them how to write cursive rooster scratching, but never taught them that block printing would be easier to read.

If you happen to have great writing and would be proud to show it off, check out how to create your own handwriting fonts on your computer. For just $9, you can have Frontier turn your awesome handwriting into fonts that you can use on scrapbook pages, use in letters to the ones you love, or save your child's first writing attempts, something I am sure Gramma and Grampa would love to have copies of too.

Don't want to pay for fonts of your handwriting? Fonts for Peas has handwriting fonts for free. You submit your handwriting sample to them via email, and they will turn it into a font for you. Awesome proposition if you don't know how to download a font. Imagine all the cool craft and scrapbook projects you can complete, all in your own hen scratching!