Handwriting is classified as being large, overly large, medium, small or overly small (microscopic).   The best way for you to determine the size of a sample of handwriting is to study a number of samples written on the same size of paper.  By paying attention to this detail, you will easily be able to determine if a particular sample falls into one of the above categories.  Handwriting size is not a fixed trait.  Some people write big all the time while others write small all the time.  However, you will often encounter a fluctuation in the size for some people.  Generally this size fluctuation is impacted by their mood or degree of concentration at a given time.  Handwriting size can also be influenced by the size of the paper.  For instance, size of writing on a post card could differ from the size of writing on 8 by 10 inch piece of paper.  If you think of the paper representing the writer's environment, then whether the writing is expansive or restrained indicates whether the person reaches out or pulls back from his surroundings and other people (is socially extroverted or introverted.)  The size of writing can also be an indicator of the writer's capacity for concentration.  Here are some broad guidelines you can use:
Large Writing:  socially extroverted, desire to be noticed by other people, expansive with their movements, unwilling to concentrate or confine their energies to small details, need for space in life, need to go many places and cover extensive ground, association between bigness and greatness, flamboyance, tend to see the "big picture," gesture broadly, take big steps, talk loudly, burst upon the scene.
Overly Large Writing: this person possesses the same characteristics of the large writer, but to a greater degree.  This person demands to be seen and heard while having an inner feeling of smallness and/or unimportance, may express exhibitionism, restlessness, hyperactivity, obsessive tendencies.
Medium-Sized Writing: someone who is feeling normally social, average ability to concentrate.  Most people write with average size script.
Small Writing:  introversion and tendency to direct one's interest upon oneself rather than external objects, people or events, reduced expansion toward environment and others.  Often large and medium-sized writers will reduce the size of their writing when they concentrate as the mind narrows its focus, the hand automatically limits its movements and creates small writing.
Overly Small (Microscopic) Writing: intense concentration, excludes outside stimuli completely.
Source: Handwriting Analysis Putting It to Work for You by Andrea McNichol.
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