Signature ideas

Six signature directions for Eduardo

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.

Drawn from the name · 6 directions · capital E · hover one to see it in use

Understated · flowing · fully readable

It turns corners instead of rounding them, and that is the whole temperament.

the full name · a swept capital · finished on a long sail

A long-running and even hand. It runs 6.9 times wider than it is tall. The "r" in "Eduardo" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.

Confident · flowing · signature-legible

No letter shouts over another, which is rarer than it sounds.

both names in one unbroken line · a capital on its own shelf · finished on a long sail

A quick and urgent hand. The line carries the momentum of a hand that never slowed down. It is the rare one that runs both names together as one word.

Commanding · sharp · signature-legible

The capital dominates, and the rest of the name follows quietly.

both names in one unbroken line · a capital on its own shelf · closed with a small loop

A rounded and urgent hand. Every turn is rounded off. Almost nothing else here runs both names together as one word.

Confident · sharp · fully readable

Generous with its loops, and unembarrassed about it.

the full name · finished on a long sail

An even and theatrical hand. It holds one weight almost the whole way through.

Understated · sharp · signature-legible

Tightly massed, so it holds together small.

the full name · a swept capital · finished on a long sail

An unbroken and dramatic hand. Only 8 pen lifts in the whole thing.

Commanding · flowing · fully readable

Long and low, it takes the whole width of the line.

the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke

A measured and upright hand. The pen keeps one pace instead of accelerating through. Almost nothing else here lays a line back underneath the name.

What Eduardo gives a designer

The capital E 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 d reaches into the ascender line, which gives the mark its upper silhouette.

7 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.

Other names