Abstract: “Handwriting is one of the unique characteristic to represent what is in our minds, to communicate with others. Handwriting shows the true personality including behaviour, emotional outlay, self-esteem, anger, imagination, honesty, fears, defences and many other personality traits. It is commonly known as Graphology. Graphology is the scientific method for recognizing, assessing and to understand writer’s personality through the shapes and word patterns in the handwriting. Personality can be identified through various handwriting features such as zone, baseline, slant, size, spacing, margin, pressure etc. Handwriting analysis has wide application in the various fields such psychology, medical diagnosis, recruitment of staff, career counseling, writer identification, forensics studies etc. This paper provides an outline of handwriting analysis, features of handwriting, its related personality traits, overview of the handwriting analysis system (HAS) and a literature survey of the exist”

Keywords: handwriting, handwriting analysis, personality, handwriting faetures , graphology