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 swept capital · finished on a long sail
A measured and level hand. The pen keeps one pace instead of accelerating through. It is also one of the few here that leaves on an exit stroke long enough to carry the eye off the page. The "r" in "Cory" 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 2.7 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 · finished on a long sail
A quick and spare hand. The line carries the momentum of a hand that never slowed down. 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 · underlined in one return stroke
A rounded and deliberate hand. Every turn is rounded off. It is also one of the few here that lays a line back underneath the name.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · a swept capital
A theatrical and unbroken hand. One letter is pushed well past the proportions of its neighbors. It is the rare one that adds no closing gesture at all.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
the full name · a capital that drops below the line · underlined in one return stroke
A grand and upright hand. The capital stands 3.4 times the height of the letters after it. Almost nothing else here drops the C's tail below the line to weigh it down.
A signature is won or lost at its opening letter. For C, the studio draws from 2 constructions observed in professional hands, and every direction below chooses one and holds it.
What follows the capital decides the middle of the mark: the y drops below the baseline — a tail a designer can turn into an underline or let hang.
Four letters or fewer is the easiest length to keep consistent — Cory can be written in full on everything from a card to a contract.
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.