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
An upright and level hand. It stands almost straight up, 22 degrees off vertical. The "k" in "Ericka" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
both names in one unbroken line · a swept capital · closed with a small loop
A spare and restrained hand. Only 6 loops in the whole mark. It is the rare one that runs both names together as one word.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
A rounded and unbroken hand. Every turn is rounded off. Almost nothing else here lays a line back underneath the name.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
the full name · finished on a long sail
A deliberate and quick hand. It is built in 12 separate strokes.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · a capital on its own shelf · finished on a long sail
A quick and level hand. The line carries the momentum of a hand that never slowed down. It is the rare one that stands the name on the E's own foot.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
A restrained and upright hand. No single letter is pushed past its neighbors. Almost nothing else here lays a line back underneath the name.
Everything starts with the E. The studio holds 2 distinct constructions of that capital — drawn from how professionals actually open a name — and each direction below commits to one of them.
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.
6 letters is the length most signatures are built on — enough travel for character, little enough to repeat exactly.
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.