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 compact and generous hand. It stays 1.7 times wider than tall, where most signatures sprawl. It is also one of the few here that adds no closing gesture at all.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
the full name · a swept capital · finished on a long sail
A long-running and urgent hand. It runs 5.6 times wider than it is tall. It is the rare one that runs a long swept approach into the D. The "r" in "Worth" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · closed with a small loop
An urgent and spare hand. It leans 26 degrees off vertical. Almost nothing else here ties off with a small loop instead of flying away.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
A rounded and upright hand. Every turn is rounded off.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
A theatrical and level hand. One letter is pushed well past the proportions of its neighbors.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
A grand and deliberate hand. The capital stands 3.0 times the height of the letters after it.
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.
After the capital, Duane runs entirely at x-height — no ascenders, no tails — so the whole middle of the mark is a single calm band, and the capital and the closing gesture do all the talking.
At 5 letters, Duane sits in the comfortable middle — long enough to build rhythm, short enough to stay one uninterrupted gesture.
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.