Himachal's signature frame is 140 × 110 px — nearly square, which surprises people. Black ink, .jpg, under 40 KB.
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| Dimensions | 140 px wide × 110 px high — the reverse of the photograph |
|---|---|
| File size | Not more than 40 KB — no minimum is stated |
| Format | .jpg |
| Paper | White |
| Ink | Black ink pen |
| Quality | Poor quality makes the application liable to rejection |
HPPSC's wording: “The candidate should scan his/her signature which has been put on white paper with black ink pen”, at “110 pixels height x140 pixels width”, not exceeding 40 KB.
This is the part that catches people out, so it is worth explaining rather than just doing. HPPSC's signature frame is 140 wide by 110 tall — a ratio of about 1.27 to 1. Almost every other commission uses something much wider: Odisha is 2:1, Kerala 1.5:1, Gujarat 3:1.
A running signature is typically three times as wide as it is tall, sometimes far more. Fitting one into a 1.27:1 box without distorting it means scaling it down until the width fits, which leaves it as a band across the middle with white above and below. That is the right answer — the wrong answer would be stretching your signature vertically to fill the box, which changes what it looks like.
If you want it to sit larger in the frame, sign more compactly: one line, no long trailing flourish, no wide underline. This tool measures your signature's own ratio and tells you how it compares.
HPPSC names the ink: white paper, black ink pen. That is a published requirement rather than folklore, so this page measures the hue of your strokes and flags anything that reads blue or otherwise coloured. It is worth noting that Himachal is stricter than neighbouring Punjab, which accepts black or blue — so a signature that would pass in one state does not automatically pass in the other.
HPPSC's wording is that each image “should not exceed 40 KB”. That is a ceiling and nothing else — the FAQ states no floor anywhere. Several tool sites publish HPPSC as “10–40 KB”, which invents a minimum the Commission never set, and then pad your file to reach it.
At 110 × 140 pixels the ceiling is generous anyway, so nothing here is compressed hard and nothing is padded. What matters far more is the other half of HPPSC's sentence: the uploaded images must be proper, and the FAQ warns that if the quality of the photograph or signature is not acceptable or is poor, the application is liable to be rejected.
HPPSC is unusually blunt about this, and it is the reason to check the preview properly. In the Commission's words, you can change or update the information in the different modules — except payment details — before submission, and you are advised to submit only when you feel all information is correct, because once submitted the information filled cannot be changed any more. Elsewhere the FAQ puts it more shortly still: applications once submitted are final and no changes can be made after submission.
There is no correction window and no edit fee to fall back on. Look at your photograph and signature at full size before you commit.
HPPSC is the Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission at hppsc.hp.gov.in. HPSC, one letter shorter, is the Haryana Public Service Commission at hpsc.gov.in. Different states, different commissions, and specifications with nothing in common.
Haryana does not give an exact pixel size at all — it gives dimension ranges, and it runs two separate application portals with different limits on each. It names no ink colour. Himachal gives one exact size for each upload, a single 40 KB ceiling, and asks specifically for black ink. If you have been handed a figure like 132 × 170 for “HPPSC”, that is Haryana's. Our HPSC page is here.
Within Himachal, HPPSC is also not HPSSC (the Himachal Pradesh Staff Selection Commission at Hamirpur), which recruits separately under its own rules.
Same application, different file. Each has its own limits — they are not interchangeable.
Exactly 140 pixels wide by 110 pixels high, in .jpg, not exceeding 40 KB. HPPSC labels the axes in its FAQ - 110 pixels height by 140 pixels width - so the signature frame is landscape while the photograph is portrait.
Because HPPSC's signature frame is nearly square. At 140 by 110 it is only about 1.27 times as wide as it is tall, and a normal running signature is usually three times as wide as it is tall or more. To fit inside the width without distorting, it has to shrink until it occupies a band across the middle, with white space above and below. That is correct - the alternative would be stretching your signature, which no commission wants.
Sign more compactly. A signature written on one line without a long trailing flourish or a wide underline has a lower width-to-height ratio and therefore fills more of a near-square frame. This tool tells you your signature's ratio and how it compares with HPPSC's 1.27:1.
Black. HPPSC's wording is that the candidate should scan a signature put on white paper with a black ink pen. That is a published rule, so this tool measures the hue of your strokes and tells you if they read as blue or another colour. Note Himachal is stricter than Punjab here, which accepts black or blue.
No. HPPSC says the image should not exceed 40 KB and states no floor. Sites that publish 10 to 40 KB have invented the minimum. Nothing here is padded.
No. HPPSC says information can be changed in the modules before submission but that once submitted it cannot be changed any more, and that applications once submitted are final. Check it before you commit.
No. HPPSC is Himachal Pradesh; HPSC is Haryana. Haryana gives dimension ranges rather than exact sizes, across two different portals, and states no ink colour at all. HPPSC is also not HPSSC, the Himachal Pradesh Staff Selection Commission.
No. The trim, the ink measurement and the compression all run in your browser on your own device. Your signature image is never transmitted.
Requirements on this page are quoted from the Online Recruitment Application (ORA) Frequently Asked Questions published by the Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (hppsc.hp.gov.in). HPPSC labels its axes explicitly — “140 pixels height x110 pixels width” for the photograph, the reverse for the signature — and caps each image at 40 KB in .jpg.
The FAQ states no minimum file size, no DPI and no background colour; a “10 KB” floor circulates on tool sites and appears nowhere in it, and at least one site publishes 3.5×4.5 cm for HPPSC, which is nothing like 110×140 px. The page carries no version number or date, so check the advertisement you are applying under.
This is HPPSC, the Himachal Pradesh commission. HPSC is Haryana (hpsc.gov.in) and publishes an entirely different specification; HPSSC is the Himachal Pradesh Staff Selection Commission. We are not affiliated with any of them.