And can you write like the Zodiac? I found a blue felt tip pen lying around my room, out of boredom I decided to give it a try. It was more difficult than I expected; those lower case ds threw me for a loop , I also naturally draw serifs on my lower case ts and as, so I found myself reverting back to that unless I wrote very deliberately. I’ve heard the best way to copy handwriting is by turning it upside down and copying it as you would a drawing, not sure if that’s true though, I think I read it in a crime novel. I doubt this would fool Sherwood Morrill, but I only took about five minutes to scribble this page. I bet if I spent a day or so practicing I could draw up a reasonable facsimile of a Z letter. Makes me realize how difficult it must have been for investigators to authenticate these things. I can’t be the only one whose messed around with copy Z’s handwriting, let’s see if you have any examples of your own.
Difficult enough. Zodiac himself tried and failed.
You may be able to get quite good at perfecting individual characters but that’s a fraction of the challenge. You then also have to master and remember the spacing, different character relationships to each other and how they vary, baseline shapes, margin shapes, use of caps, punctuation, stroke thickness and weight and those variations and much more.
A short missive would be your best chance but even at that it’s still quite difficult. If you have a ‘style’ that’s already close to Z’s then it would be an advantage but usually something will be missed. Even considering Z’s own writing he had what I guess you would have to term, natural variation within certain characters but even that is limited so you would have to include that in any lengthy attempt to make it look authentic.
So, impossible? probably not but given the amount that Zodiac wrote and sent and the variations he employed I would say you would have quite a tall order. I often wonder if that wasn’t his purpose. Provide so many variations that were identifiable as him that anyone else attempting to hoax a letter would have a challenge on their hands that they didn’t even realize they were up against.
The d isn’t the only thing you struggled with btw. 
“I don’t know Chief, he’s very smart or very dumb.“
You did a pretty good job on it when you copied an exact phrase, but I think you figured out what the problem was when you tried to form your own words and phrases just copying the individual Z characters.
I actually have never seen an example of someone trying to do this, not just copy Z’s writing, but demonstrating different samples of copied attempts. That’s excellent, I think this is a very useful notion so we can see exactly how the writing process is carried out, instead of just the results.
No it wouldn’t.
No it wouldn’t.
Which ones?
