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
finished below the line
A level and measured hand. The capital is only 2.3 times the height of the letters after it. The line underneath is your own "y" in "Gregory", carried further — nothing was added to make it.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
a capital that drops below the line · closed with a small loop
An urgent and generous hand. It leans 30 degrees off vertical. It is the rare one that drops the G's tail below the line to weigh it down. The "g" in "Gregory" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
a swept capital · finished below the line
A dramatic and deliberate hand. The stroke swells and thins by a factor of 4.1. Almost nothing else here runs a long swept approach into the G.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
a capital that drops below the line · underlined in one return stroke
A theatrical and compact hand. One letter is pushed well past the proportions of its neighbors. It is also one of the few here that drops the G's tail below the line to weigh it down.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
finished on a long sail
An unbroken and level hand. Only 6 pen lifts in the whole thing. It is the rare one that takes the G's tail underneath the name and back.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
finished below the line
A grand and restrained hand. The capital stands 3.3 times the height of the letters after it.
Everything starts with the G. 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 g and y drop below the baseline — a tail a designer can turn into an underline or let hang.
At 7 letters, Gregory 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.