Extra Diet: "If you change your ideas, your way of thinking, your writing will change, too,"

letter e "shows how open-minded they are."
She said that a small e that looks more like an i, or a screw driver, indicates a very closed-minded person.But an e that looks more like an o may mean the person's mind is too open.
Writing that is nearly all the same height, whether capital or small letters or e's or h's, can indicate a lack of balance in one's life.But writing that has a consistent mix of letters at the heights they should be shows a more balanced life.
The style of the loops one makes in a small f also can indicate many things, she said.
For example, if both the upper and lower loops are proportional, with the upper loop slightly smaller and the lower one a bit bigger, the person likely has a strong organizational ability, Rohn-Cook explained.
A tight or no upper loop and a big lower loop indicates a lack of organizational ability, but that person probably could carry out orders well, she said.But a big upper loop and a tiny lower loop may mean someone has lots of ideas, but doesn't necessarily carry them out, she said.
"When you have both upper and lower loops, your philosophy, your belief system are both there," Rohn-Cook said.
She said it's all about staying balanced, even with something as simple as the loop in a small e or as complicated as both loops in a small f.

Rohn-Cook said that cursive handwriting does not indicate whether the writer is a man or a woman, or the person's nationality or race.

Document Examiner vs. Graphologist

Handwriting analysis is employed in two different fields. The first is often referred to as "questioned document examination," a branch of the forensic sciences. Document examiners, according to the Association of Forensic Document Examiners, "answer questions relating to the reliability and authenticity of a document which may involve signatures, handwriting in general, or hand printing." This is a different branch of science from graphologists, or graphoanalysts, who examine handwriting characteristics in order to assess the character and personality of an individual. Graphoanalyst is a registered trademark of the International Graphoanalysis Society.

To determine authorship of a particular signature or handwriting sample, a forensic document examiner will consider certain characteristics, including

1. Spacing of words and letters
2. Ratio of relative height, width, and size of letters
3. Pen lifts and separations
4. Connecting strokes
5. Beginning and ending strokes.
6. Unusual letter formation.
7. Slant.
8. Baseline characteristics
9. Flourishes and embellishments
10. The length, size, and location of diacritics (dotting of i's and crossing of t's).