CHAPTER 5 Flashcards
- The upstroke of a looping ascender.
WHIRL
- A writing weakness portrayed by irregular shaky strokes is described as ______
TREMOR
- slant stroke
SHANK
- long stroke
STEM
- the upright long downward stroke that is the trunk or stalk, normally seen in capital letters.
STEM OR SHANK
- Any major long downward stroke of a letter that is the long downward stroke of the letter “b”, “g”.
STAFF
- A short initial or terminal stroke.
SPUR
- Any part of a stroke which is super imposed upon the original stroke.
RETRACE/RETRACING
coming downward from the top to bottom will have a
RETRACE/RETRACING
any stroke which goes back over another writing stroke
RETRACE/RETRACING
In natural handwriting there may be instances in which the pen doubled back over the course.
RETRACE/RETRACING
Ex: vertical stroke of the letters “d”, “t”
RETRACE/RETRACING
-an interruption in a stroke caused by removing the writing instrument from the paper.
PEN LIFT
is common defect on forgeries.
CAREFUL PATCHING
- retouching or going back over a defective portion of a written stroke.
PATCHING
- a capital letter.
MAJUSCULE
- a small letter.
MINUSCULE
–circle line structure
LOOP
may be blind or open.
LOOP
- A oblong curve such as found on the small letter “f”, “g”, “I” and letters stroke “P” has two.
LOOP
A ________ is usually the result of the ink having filled the open space.
blind loop
-usually applicable to fountain pen
KNOB
-the extra deposit of ink in the initial and terminal stroke due to the slow withdrawal of the pen from the paper
KNOB
- Upper portion of its letter “m”,”n”,”h”,”k”
HUMP/SHOULDER