• Anurag Srivastava
• Dr. Kavita Sharma

Handwritten Signature is used as an identification mark for a person. Signature contains intrinsic handwriting characteristics which are produced after a long practice of peculiar formation and adaptation to needs and abilities. These features make any signature unique and identifiable. Signature is so significant that it is frequently used in routine paper works as well as in financial and confidential activities [1, 2]. This is the reason due to which signature is prone to forgery. On the basis of formation signatures may be categorized into three groups- first in which a signature is constituted of letters only, second in which a signature is constituted of certain letters as well as certain non- letter patterns and third in which a signature is constituted of non- letter patterns only. Signatures may be examined for various reasons but the most common are to know whether a particular signature is forged or not. For this purpose, questioned signature is required to compare with specimen signatures. In certain cases, it becomes essential to know who wrote the particular signature, this is called authorship fixing. For any handwriting expert it is often easier to detect whether a particular signature is genuine or forged but tough to know who wrote it. Authorship fixing by comparing handwriting with handwriting is common but by comparing signature with handwriting is unusual. Here in this study comparison of signature with handwriting has been carried out on collected samples to extract those handwriting characteristics which are common in signatures of the same writer. This method of authorship fixing is applicable in many cases specially in which handwriting of a subject the only available writing sample for comparison with questioned signature.

Signature, Handwriting, Characteristics, Authorship

"Evaluation of Common Authorship Characteristics in Signatures and Handwriting of Different Writers", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 5, page no.646-648, May 2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2005402.pdf

"Evaluation of Common Authorship Characteristics in Signatures and Handwriting of Different Writers", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 5, page no. pp646-648, May 2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2005402.pdf