Monday, December 5, 2011

Handwriting

13 characteristics of handwriting

1. slant- which direction it temps to slant to and how much
2. size- handwriting is broken up into 3 zones which are the upper, the lower, and the middle
3. pressure- light or heavy
4. upper zone or case( as in l, t, h, etc)
5. lower zone (as in g, y, p, etc)
6. word spacing-wide or narrow
7. line spacing-Wide-spaced lines or narrow-spaced lines
8. page margins
9. middle zone or case (as in a, c, e, etc)
10. arcade
11. garland
12. angle
13. wavy line- unique characteristic

This helps forensics to identify if maybe a letter was faked and make it seem as a suicede when it was a murder.

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