Understated · flowing · fully readable
Long and low, it takes the whole width of the line.
the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
An upright and level hand. It stands almost straight up, 21 degrees off vertical.
Signature ideas
Six signature directions for Andres
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.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
It leans into the page, the way a hand in a hurry does.
the full name · a swept capital · finished on a long sail
A dense and angular hand. The letters are packed close together. It is the rare one that leaves on an exit stroke long enough to carry the eye off the page. The "r" in "Andres" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
The capital dominates, and the rest of the name follows quietly.
both names in one unbroken line · underlined in one return stroke
A rounded and dramatic hand. Every turn is rounded off. Almost nothing else here runs both names together as one word.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
Generous with its loops, and unembarrassed about it.
the full name · a swept capital · finished on a long sail
An airy and quick hand. The letters are set well apart. It is also one of the few here that leaves on an exit stroke long enough to carry the eye off the page.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
One letter does the performing, and the others hold still for it.
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
A level and unbroken hand. The capital is only 1.8 times the height of the letters after it.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
No letter shouts over another, which is rarer than it sounds.
the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
A deliberate and measured hand. It is built in 13 separate strokes.
What Andres gives a designer
A signature is won or lost at its opening letter. For A, the studio draws from 2 constructions observed in professional hands, and every direction below chooses one and holds it.
The rest of the name sets the terrain: the d reaches into the ascender line, which gives the mark its upper silhouette.
6 letters is the length most signatures are built on — enough travel for character, little enough to repeat exactly.
Making it yours
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.