Principles of Handwriting:
1. Every handwriting has individuality.
2. No two people write exactly alike.
3. There are natural variations in the handwriting of a person.
4. Individual characteristics that are unique to a particular writer exist in every person’s handwriting, distinguishing it from every other handwritings.
5. Inconspicuous features have great importance.
6. The act of writing is a skill learned through repetition until it becomes a habit.
7. There should be no fundamental divergence in the questioned and sample writings, if written by the same person.
8. A person’s natural writing is based on copybook that they have learned at school.
9. People style their writing as they want and it’s unique to them.
10. A person’s handwriting changes over the course of his/her lifetime.
11. Some writing habits are subconscious and therefore cannot be changed by the writer.
The writing habits of a writer are found from:
1. Headings, introductions and conclusions
2. Movement
3. Paragraph and, their frequency
4. Size
5. Margins
6. Spacing in words, lines and paragraphs
7. Alignment in lines, words, letters, etc.
8. Punctuations
9. Arrangement of figures and abbreviations
10. Speed
General Qualities of a handwriting are:
1. Pictorial Effect
2. Rhythm
3. Style
4. Movement
5. Pen Position
6. Line Quality
7. Type of writing
8. Proportions
9. Legibility
10. Tremor, etc.
The Individual characteristics are:
1. Pen pressure
2. Shading
3. Pen pauses
4. Pen Lifts.
5. Starting and ending strokes
6. Hesitations
7. Embellishments
8. Abbreviations
9. Placings
10. Slope
11. Size
12. Retouchings
13. Diacritics, etc.
Factors that cause changes in Handwriting:
1. Mechanical Factors (Such as, Awkward Position)
2. Time Span (Changes over the course of one’s life)
3. Health
4. Blindness
5. Mental Health
6. Drugs and Medication
7. Alcohol And Drug Abuse
8. Accidentals
9. Guided Hand
10. Tremors in Handwriting, etc.
