Volume 32, Issue 1 (January 1987) Line Quality—Historic and
Contemporary Views The various elements of the writing movement
that are recorded in a person's handwriting are important parts
of all identifications, in some problems absolutely controlling.
A. S. Osborn introduced the term, line quality, to embrace all
factors relating to writing movement. A portion of the factors
relates to the writing instrument used. Have modern writing
instruments hidden most of these factors? The analysis of this
problem finds that there is some need to modify Osborn's
conception slightly to a contemporary definition. With such
modification the term line quality is still valid.