International reference atlas
Slant describes the angle of strokes relative to the writing line.
Handwriting and graphology
Choose several instances of the same letter. Compare their long strokes with a perpendicular to the baseline, recording variation within the sample.
If all letters appear to lean right, first check whether the photograph is rotated. A measured slant alone cannot establish personality or identity.
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