Famous handwriting: manuscripts and signatures
Famous handwriting includes Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and sourced autographs. Inspect repeated prose letters beside compact name forms.
Compare an ordinary phrase
Write this phrase twice and inspect the repeated forms. Use the same feature-by-feature approach when looking at the historical samples above; the practice model is its own school form.
Compare the signature with ordinary writing
Compare an autograph’s opening capital with repeated capitals and body letters in ordinary prose. Keep the specimen’s date and caption in view when comparing their shapes, size and spacing.
Look for an enlarged opening letter, narrower word gaps or a change in stem angle between the two kinds of writing.
Worksheet and print settings
Print at 100% (Actual size).
Reference, comparison & reading
Lincoln’s handwritten passage
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
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.
