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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Notice that every letter "a" is typed slightly higher than other letters. This is a mechanical characteristic of that individual typewriter. Investigators used to match documents to the machines they were typed on by looking at the misalignments of individual letters.