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 deliberate hand. The capital is only 1.8 times the height of the letters after it. It is also one of the few here that lays a line back underneath the name.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
the full name · a swept capital · finished on a long sail
A dramatic and urgent hand. The stroke swells and thins by a factor of 4.5. It is the rare one that runs a long swept approach into the C. The "s" in "Cristina" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · a capital that drops below the line · closed with a small loop
A grand and compact hand. The capital stands 3.2 times the height of the letters after it. Almost nothing else here drops the C's tail below the line to weigh it down.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
the full name · closed with a small loop
A rounded and upright hand. Every turn is rounded off.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · a swept capital · 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 a long swept approach into the C.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
the full name · closed with a small loop
A deliberate and dense hand. It is built in 16 separate strokes.
The capital C 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.
After that, the lowercase run does the work: the t reaches into the ascender line, which gives the mark its upper silhouette and the dotted i leaves a mark above the line that a fast hand turns into a flick.
At 8 letters, Cristina is a long run for one gesture — which is why several directions below let the middle of the name relax while the capital and the ending stay sharp.
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.