Editing Handwriting (section)

==Uniqueness==
Each person has their own unique style of handwriting, whether it be everyday handwriting or their personal signature. Cultural environment and the characteristics of the written form of the first language that one learns to write are the primary influences on the development of one's own unique handwriting style.<ref name="Srihari">Sargur Srihari, Chen Huang and Harish Srinivasan (March 2008). [https://cedar.buffalo.edu/~srihari/papers/JFS2008-color.pdf "On the Discriminability of the Handwriting of Twins"]. ''J Forensic Sci.''; 53(2):430–46.</ref> Even identical twins who share appearance and genetics do not have the same handwriting.<ref name="Dziedzic">Tomasz Dziedzic, Ewa Fabianska, and Zuzanna Toeplitz (2007). [https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/handwriting-monozygotic-and-dizygotic-twins Handwriting of Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twins]. ''Problems of Forensic Sciences.'' </ref>

Characteristics of handwriting include:
* the specific shape of letters, e.g. their roundness or sharpness
* regular or irregular spacing between letters
* the slope of the letters
* the rhythmic repetition of the elements or arrhythmia
* the pressure to the paper
* the average size of letters
* the thickness of letters
* the spacing between letters, words and sentences