Understated · flowing · fully readable
It gives itself room, and reads as unhurried because of it.
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
A level and restrained hand. The capital is only 1.9 times the height of the letters after it.
Signature ideas
Six signature directions for Curtis
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.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
Nothing curls that does not have to, and nothing is missing.
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
An urgent and unbroken hand. It leans 28 degrees off vertical.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
The capital dominates, and the rest of the name follows quietly.
the full name · a swept capital · closed with a small loop
A compact and theatrical hand. It stays 3.0 times wider than tall, where most signatures sprawl. Almost nothing else here runs a long swept approach into the C. The "r" in "Curtis" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
Written at speed, and it shows in the best way.
the full name · a swept capital · closed with a small loop
A theatrical and generous hand. One letter is pushed well past the proportions of its neighbors. It is also one of the few here that runs a long swept approach into the C.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
Everything rounds, nothing is cornered.
the full name
A long-running and urgent hand. It runs 6.0 times wider than it is tall. It is the rare one that adds no closing gesture at all.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
Tightly massed, so it holds together small.
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
An even and generous hand. It holds one weight almost the whole way through.
What Curtis gives a designer
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.
What follows the capital decides the middle of the mark: 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.
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.