HANDWRITING & GRAPHOLOGY

Famous handwriting samples and signature comparisons

Explore Abraham Lincoln’s handwritten Gettysburg Address and compare sourced autograph specimens, keeping ordinary prose and signature composition in view.

Lincoln’s handwritten passage

Abraham Lincoln’s handwritten Gettysburg Address, Nicolay copy, first page — Library of Congress · Abraham Lincoln papers · public domain. Image credit and original manuscript.

The full page shows line layout, word gaps and repeated lowercase forms. Begin with a single line, then compare the same stem and oval forms elsewhere in the passage. Inspect its complete measured analysis.

Autograph specimens

Barack Obama signature — Barack Obama · Image credit: Original: Anthony5429 Vector: SyntaxError55 · Public domain.

Charles Dickens signature — Charles Dickens · Image credit: Charles Dickens · Public domain.

Albert Einstein signature — Albert Einstein · Image credit: Albert Einstein Created in vector format by Scewingp · Public domain.

Compare like with like

Ordinary prose offers repeated letters in changing word contexts. A signature provides a compact, name-specific composition. Compare their shared body shapes and stem angles, while keeping the name’s enlarged initial and flourish separate.

Each individual signature page includes its own source context, image credit and annotations. Different specimens may come from different dates or reproduction methods; read the source caption alongside the image.