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 level and spare hand. The capital is only 1.6 times the height of the letters after it. It is also one of the few here that hangs the name off the D as a stem. The "r" in "Worth" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
An angular and unbroken hand. The turns are cut rather than curved. It is the rare one that lays a line back underneath the name.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · a swept capital · finished on a long sail
A dense and theatrical hand. The letters are packed close together.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
the full name · finished on a long sail
An upright and deliberate hand. It stands almost straight up, 19 degrees off vertical. It is also one of the few here that hangs the name off the D as a stem.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · a swept capital · finished on a long sail
A rounded and unbroken hand. Every turn is rounded off.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
An upright and measured hand. It stands almost straight up, 20 degrees off vertical. Almost nothing else here lays a line back underneath the name.
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, Duncan 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.
Duncan is 6 letters: room for a real rhythm without the fatigue of a long run.
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.