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
finished below the line
A long-running and level hand. It runs 4.0 times wider than it is tall. The line underneath is your own "y" in "Aubrey", carried further — nothing was added to make it.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
a capital that drops below the line · finished below the line
A dense and deliberate hand. The letters are packed close together. The "r" in "Aubrey" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
a capital that drops below the line · finished below the line
A deliberate and airy hand. It is built in 7 separate strokes.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
a capital that cradles the name · finished on a long sail
A dense and unbroken hand. The letters are packed close together. It is also one of the few here that sits the whole name inside the A.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
a capital thrown inside a loop · finished on a long sail
A level and rounded hand. The capital is only 1.8 times the height of the letters after it. It is the rare one that throws a flat loop right around the A.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
a capital that drops below the line · closed with a small loop
A dramatic and grand hand. The stroke swells and thins by a factor of 3.7. Almost nothing else here ties off with a small loop instead of flying away.
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.
The rest of the name sets the terrain: the b reaches into the ascender line, which gives the mark its upper silhouette and the y drops below the baseline — a tail a designer can turn into an underline or let hang.
6 letters is the length most signatures are built on — enough travel for character, little enough to repeat exactly.
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.