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 · underlined in one return stroke
An upright and level hand. It stands almost straight up, 20 degrees off vertical. The "r" in "Katrina" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
both names in one unbroken line · finished on a long sail
A dense and dramatic hand. The letters are packed close together. It is the rare one that runs both names together as one word.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
An urgent and long-running hand. It leans 24 degrees off vertical.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
the full name · closed with a small loop
An even and measured hand. It holds one weight almost the whole way through. It is also one of the few here that ties off with a small loop instead of flying away.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
A spare and rounded hand. Only 7 loops in the whole mark.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
A long-running and urgent hand. It runs 5.0 times wider than it is tall. Almost nothing else here runs a long swept approach into the K.
A signature is won or lost at its opening letter. For K, the studio draws from 1 construction observed in professional hands, and every direction below chooses one and holds it.
What follows the capital decides the middle of the mark: the t 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.
At 7 letters, Katrina 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.