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Thomas Jefferson signature
Long thin inclined strokes overlap around a narrow cursive name band.
What does Thomas Jefferson’s signature look like?
Long thin inclined strokes overlap around a narrow cursive name band. Large opening and central loops descend well below the smaller letters, before a long low extension at the right.
- Slant
- ≥ +40°forward
- Baseline
- +4.5°rising
- Width / height
- 3.17 : 1overall proportions
- Opening height
- 1.23×opening versus body letters
Tall inclined loops through a finely written name
Long thin inclined strokes overlap around a narrow cursive name band. Large opening and central loops descend well below the smaller letters, before a long low extension at the right. Follow those major loops separately to see the compressed body forms between them; the tall diagonal construction accounts for much of the specimen’s outline.
Thomas Jefferson signature analysis
Thomas Jefferson’s signature sample has a forward slant at the edge of the measured range, a rising baseline and 10 enclosed loops. Use the layers to follow the writing line, letter band, slant and enclosed loops.
- Slantforward
- ≥ +40°
- Baselinerising
- +4.5°
- Width / heightoverall proportions
- 3.17 : 1
- Opening heightopening versus body letters
- 1.23×
- Enclosed loopsclosed spaces in the image
- 10
- Ink groupsmain disconnected groups
- 1
- Ink densityinside the signature bounds
- 11.3%
- Underlineno long lower flourish
- None
- Finish heightrelative to the letter body
- +0.06×
Opening, letter body and finish
The opening stays near the height of the body letters. The opening-to-body ratio is 1.23×, while the whole image is 3.17 times as wide as it is tall. The rightmost ink finishes above the writing line; look at this ending separately from the slant of the letters themselves.
Loops and the lower flourish
The sample contains 10 enclosed loops and 1 main ink group. The letterforms carry the main horizontal movement; there is no long lower underline detected beneath their band.
Thomas Jefferson’s signature in graphology
Traditional graphology associates forward inclination with outward expression. The large descending loops add expressive public emphasis around a much smaller connected writing band.
Follow the forward-leaning strokes in this image alongside the smaller body letters. For another perspective on your own writing, the handwriting analysis tool brings slant, size and spacing into a full-page reading.
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