Signature ideas
Each one is a genuine drawing of the name — not a font — made by the same studio that draws the paid commission, with the design decisions stated under it.
Understated · flowing · fully readable
the full name · a capital that drops below the line · underlined in one return stroke
A level and rounded hand. The capital is only 1.9 times the height of the letters after it. It is also one of the few here that drops the A's tail below the line to weigh it down. The "r" in "Andre" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
the full name · a swept capital · finished on a long sail
An airy and urgent hand. The letters are set well apart. It is the rare one that leaves on an exit stroke long enough to carry the eye off the page.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · a swept capital · finished on a long sail
An even and unbroken hand. It holds one weight almost the whole way through. Almost nothing else here leaves on an exit stroke long enough to carry the eye off the page.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
the full name · a swept capital · closed with a small loop
A theatrical and even hand. One letter is pushed well past the proportions of its neighbors. It is also one of the few here that ties off with a small loop instead of flying away.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
A theatrical and compact hand. One letter is pushed well past the proportions of its neighbors.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
A long-running and dramatic hand. It runs 6.2 times wider than it is tall.
The capital A carries the mark. There are 2 distinct professional constructions of it on the studio's shelf, and which one a design commits to changes the whole gesture.
What follows the capital decides the middle of the mark: the d reaches into the ascender line, which gives the mark its upper silhouette.
At 5 letters, Andre sits in the comfortable middle — long enough to build rhythm, short enough to stay one uninterrupted gesture.
These studies are drawn on the first name alone, because that is how the question is usually asked — but a working signature is built on your full name: the second capital, the balance between the two words, and the short everyday version are where the real design decisions live.
The studio draws twenty directions for your full name in about a minute, and the kit — the files, the report that explains the design, and the stroke-order lesson — is what the three you choose become.