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When the samples were written in high speed S4, the legibility reduced.

That is only 17% of the subjects’ writing were clearly visible indicating

the samples were legible, 60% of the writing samples had few words
that were unclear so it was classified as moderately legible. And also

23% of the subjects’ writing none of the words was clear so it was clas-

sified as illegible.

Overall it was discovered that when the subject wrote samples with gel

pen, the subject’s writing legibility decreased as the speed increased.

Majority of the samples were moderately legible and few illegible but
the percentage of the samples with legible reduced comparatively.

CONCLUSION
C ON CL U SION
From this study it was observed that there is an influence of pen on

handwriting which is aligned with the expected outcomes, that is as

the speed increases the pressure decreases; as the speed increases the

writing legibility may decrease and also give a positive effect of pen on
different speeds.

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