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Handwriting Analysis

Handwriting Analysis. Class Characteristics. We learned to write by copying examples of letters and words Many of these have carried over into adult years. Individual Characteristics. Over the years, our knowledge of how to write becomes subconscious We develop differences in our writing

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Handwriting Analysis

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  1. Handwriting Analysis

  2. Class Characteristics • We learned to write by copying examples of letters and words • Many of these have carried over into adult years

  3. Individual Characteristics • Over the years, our knowledge of how to write becomes subconscious • We develop differences in our writing • It becomes difficult to disguise our writing

  4. Exemplars • A known sample of writing that is used for comparison of someone’s handwriting

  5. Graphology • Analyzing handwriting for personality traits • This is not true science

  6. Making a Positive Identification • Can be done if there are enough samples and enough exemplars • And enough samples for comparison • Look at 12 characteristics

  7. Line Quality • Are the lines? • Smooth • Free-flowing • Rhythmic or shaky, nervous and wavering

  8. Spacing of words and letters • Average amount of space between words and letters • Is the spacing consistent?

  9. Ratio • Of • Height • Width and size of letters • What are they overall • Are they consistent

  10. Pen lifts and separations • How the writer stops to form new letters • And begins new words • (forgeries may have pen lifts or separations in unusual places) • In the word or even the letter

  11. Connecting strokes • How capital letters are connected to lowercase letters • How strokes connect between letters and words

  12. Beginning and ending strokes • How the writer begins and ends a • Word • Number • Letter • Are they • Straight • Curled • Long • Short • Made on the upstroke or downstroke

  13. Unusual letter formation • Backwards • Unusual capitals • Mixing printing and penmanship • Punctuation styles

  14. Shading or pen pressure • Making lines lighter or darker • Narrow vs. wide • Pressure on downward and upward lines

  15. Slant • Right or left • Straight up and down • Consistency of slanting

  16. Baseline habits • Above or below • Wander up or down

  17. Flourishes/embellishments • Freestyle • Fancy letters • Curls • Loops • Circles • Double loops • underlines

  18. diacritics • Crossing t’s • Dotting i • Dotting j • where the cross or dot is placed • European 7…put a line through to differentiate from a 1

  19. Other irregularities • Awkward • Unnatural • Wide variations

  20. What handwriting can tell you • Just whether it matches the exemplar • A language person may read a passage and be able to hypothesize about a person’s educational background, culture, geographical location

  21. Natural variations • Even the writing of one person is never completely identical • In every detail • Variation is an inherent part of natural writing • This can make the tracing of a signature easier to see as a forgery • Writing can change over time; it is best to use an exemplary within the past three years

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