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 · underlined in one return stroke
A level and spare hand. The capital is only 1.6 times the height of the letters after it. The "r" in "Bernard" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
both names in one unbroken line · closed with a small loop
A compact and restrained hand. It stays 2.0 times wider than tall, where most signatures sprawl. It is the rare one that runs both names together as one word.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · closed with a small loop
A grand and compact hand. The capital stands 3.4 times the height of the letters after it. Almost nothing else here ties off with a small loop instead of flying away.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
An airy and rounded hand. The letters are set well apart.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
A theatrical and long-running hand. One letter is pushed well past the proportions of its neighbors.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
the full name · finished on a long sail
A generous and grand hand. It spends 20 loops getting through your name. Almost nothing else here leaves on an exit stroke long enough to carry the eye off the page.
The capital B 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 d reaches into the ascender line, which gives the mark its upper silhouette.
At 7 letters, Bernard 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.