Tuesday was National Handwriting Day, brought to us by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association. They picked John Hancock’s birthday to commemorate the declining art of writing things with pens, pencils, markers, etc. In this news article, handwriting identification expert, Emily Will, says “the best protection against forgery is good, skilled writing. No one can write better than their skill level, so the better skill level you have, the less number of people can successfully forge your handwriting.” An interesting observation. However, the faithful reproduction of a person’s signature seems not to involve skill at handwriting as much as a muscle memory of how you’ve degenerated the writing of your name into an efficient set of squiggles. (via LTSeek)