The development of handwriting

Les Elements

Elements of writing

- Rhythm

- Line

- Horizontal or wavy writing

- Letter direction: right-left bias

- Lowercase/capital letter ratio

- Letter shapes: round, irregular, open

- Tension: rigid, flexible, irregular, fluid

The development of our handwriting

Childhood:

- At school, children learn to write.

- Their handwriting is still very clumsy, conforming to the norm.

- It involves practicing certain standardized forms.

- Through numerous repeated repetitions, the letters and movement patterns are visualized in the brain.

- They become habits within us

- Writing habits become neurological reflexes.

Adolescence:

- The adolescent is then in search of their identity and their sexual role in society.

- With the search for identity, the letter shapes of their school writing become individualized.

Adulthood:

- Through writing habits and individualizations, writing became further individualized in the cerebellum, by reflex.

This is how it evolved into its own personal writing style.

In summary, we can say:

- Our ideas and thoughts move our nervous system, with its psychomotor processes.

- They excite and move our hand muscles, with which we deliberately write down our thoughts in a letter.

- At the same time, unconscious fears, desires, and displeasures from our memories influence our will.

This leads to vivid disturbances,

which make up our individual handwriting.