Signature ideas

Six signature directions for Briana

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.

Drawn from the name · 6 directions · capital B · hover one to see it in use

Understated · 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 spare and angular hand. Only 6 loops in the whole mark. The "r" in "Worth" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.

Confident · flowing · signature-legible

Written at speed, and it shows in the best way.

the full name · a swept capital · finished on a long sail

An unbroken and angular hand. Only 7 pen lifts in the whole thing. 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 capital dominates, and the rest of the name follows quietly.

the full name · underlined in one return stroke

An upright and theatrical hand. It stands almost straight up, 20 degrees off vertical.

Confident · sharp · fully readable

It gives itself room, and reads as unhurried because of it.

the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke

A generous and measured hand. It spends 15 loops getting through your name.

Understated · sharp · signature-legible

Compact, with its weight gathered in one place.

both names in one unbroken line · underlined in one return stroke

A level and unbroken hand. The capital is only 1.9 times the height of the letters after it. It is the rare one that runs both names together as one word.

Commanding · flowing · fully readable

One weight the whole way through, which is what makes it read as modern.

the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke

A rounded and deliberate hand. Every turn is rounded off.

What Briana gives a designer

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 dotted i leaves a mark above the line that a fast hand turns into a flick.

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.

Other names