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 · finished on a long sail
A generous and compact hand. It spends 41 loops getting through your name. It is also one of the few here that leaves on an exit stroke long enough to carry the eye off the page. The "m" in "Dominick" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
A spare and long-running hand. Only 8 loops in the whole mark.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
both names in one unbroken line · underlined in one return stroke
An even and unbroken hand. It holds one weight almost the whole way through. Almost nothing else here runs both names together as one word.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
An upright and deliberate hand. It stands almost straight up, 18 degrees off vertical.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · finished on a long sail
A long-running and dramatic hand. It runs 7.0 times wider than it is tall. It is the rare one that leaves on an exit stroke long enough to carry the eye off the page.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
the full name · closed with a small loop
A grand and angular hand. The capital stands 3.3 times the height of the letters after it. Almost nothing else here ties off with a small loop instead of flying away.
The capital D 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 k 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, Dominick 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.