What is forensic handwriting analysis?

Forensic handwriting analysis is a pattern-based science that examines significant, repeated handwriting characteristics (i.e. handwriting habits) in questioned writing comparing and evaluating these characteristics in the known writing.

What is a handwriting specialist called?

Document examiners are known by many different names. They might also be called forensic document examiner, handwriting expert, document expert, forensic handwriting expert, handwriting examiner, or forgery expert.

Why do people try to disguise their handwriting?

Forgery – Many criminal individuals will try and disguise their handwriting as a means of forgery. School – Disguising your handwriting has been used in schools for decades to mimic their parent’s signatures as well as contributing to school projects.

What does it mean when Your Handwriting goes in all directions?

In fact, many writers, authors and journalists have handwriting that goes in all directions suggesting that they seem to be scanning the skies with their antennae and pulling in ideas from everywhere. Sometimes irregular handwriting can be a sign of eccentricity.

What does it mean when Your Handwriting slants?

What your handwriting means. Letters that slant in more than one direction: Indicates versatility and adaptability. An erratic slant: Usually means a lack of flexibility. Heavy pressure writing (like you can feel the rib made on the back of the paper): The writer is agitated.

Why “ugly handwriting” needs its own post?

Ugly handwriting needs its very own own post because it has always been the ugly duckling among writers. There are several reasons why I’m featuring “Ugly handwriting” today – one of the most important being that these handwritings often have a lot to them and the writers of these handwritings are never boring or colourless.