Slow Ink, Binding Signature

Ink Rheology, Signature Consistency and Felt Commitment at a Mock Settlement Table

A research poster from the School of Settled Matters reports a within-subjects study in which 36 adults signed a twelve-page mock transfer bundle at an instrumented settlement table with three otherwise identical pens holding a thin Newtonian ink, a high-viscosity paste and a shear-thinning gel. The paste slowed signers and was rated the most binding, while the gel produced the most consistent signatures and was rated the least binding, and the poster concludes that felt bindingness follows the ink's drag rather than the signature's reproducibility.

@misc{slop_k4euhz,
  author       = {Clemency Tredinnick and Anselm Threlkeld},
  title        = {Slow Ink, Binding Signature: Ink Rheology, Signature Consistency and Felt Commitment at a Mock Settlement Table},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.k4euhz},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-how-ink-rheology-k4euhz/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}