Writing with a forward slant could mean you're more impulsive. (Getty Images) In a digital age, the art of handwriting is arguably a dying one – so much so that the education secretary has this week ...

The monkey tail is dead. It sounds morbid and sad, but there is no mourning here in Kristi Burton’s first-grade classroom at Duffy School. Teacher and students have moved on. The D’Nealian alphabet’s ...

The handwriting samples can be classified into three primary styles: scribbly print, bubbly print and cursive. To better understand handwriting styles, we collected samples from 90 participants in ...

A closer look at someone's handwriting style can provide surprising insights about their character and personality, enabling you to come off like a proper Sherlock. The art of handwriting analysis is ...

Handwriting is a skill that feels personal and unique to all of us. Everyone has a slightly different style -- a weird quirk or a seemingly illegible scrawl -- that's nearly impossible for a computer ...

Call it a sign of the times. Computer scientists in the Middle East recently patented an artificial intelligence program that can successfully mimic human handwriting at an indistinguishable level.

Geoff Nunberg (@GeoffNunberg) is a linguist who teaches at the School of Information at the University of California at Berkeley. Is longhand doomed? People were predicting that as early as 1938, when ...