International reference atlas
The baseline is an imaginary guide supporting the bodies of letters.
Handwriting and graphology
Locate the start and end of a line in reading order. Exclude strokes that descend below the letter bodies when estimating the baseline.
A line on an envelope may curve around a stain or near the edge. Record its position as well as its direction. An ascending line is not a measure of mood.
Graphology associates handwriting with personality. Each proposed link needs an independent test of its predictive value.
Handwriting and graphologyA person may form one letter several ways even within one sentence. Comparison needs a range of examples rather than the nearest match.
Handwriting and graphologyExaminers consider how a stroke travels, breaks and changes along its path. With a photograph the first question is which details the image actually retains.
Graphologist Israel