Signature ideas

Six signature directions for Kenny

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 K · 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 · underlined in one return stroke

A level and measured hand. The capital is only 2.0 times the height of the letters after it. The "r" in "Worth" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.

Confident · flowing · signature-legible

Pressure where it presses, hairline where it lifts.

the full name · finished on a long sail

An airy and long-running hand. The letters are set well apart. It is the rare one that leaves on an exit stroke long enough to carry the eye off the page. The double "n" in "Kenny" goes down as one motion, so the middle of the name never stops.

Commanding · sharp · signature-legible

One letter does the performing, and the others hold still for it.

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

An even and generous hand. It holds one weight almost the whole way through. Almost nothing else here runs a long swept approach into the K.

Confident · sharp · fully readable

Upright and composed, it never looks rushed.

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

A rounded and deliberate hand. Every turn is rounded off. It is also one of the few here that runs a long swept approach into the K.

Understated · sharp · signature-legible

Written at speed, and it shows in the best way.

the full name · finished on a long sail

A level and urgent hand. The capital is only 2.2 times the height of the letters after it. It is the rare one that hangs the name off the K as a stem.

Commanding · flowing · fully readable

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

the full name · closed with a small loop

A spare and compact hand. Only 13 loops in the whole mark. Almost nothing else here hangs the name off the K as a stem.

What Kenny gives a designer

The capital K carries the mark. There is one professional construction of it on the studio's shelf, and which one a design commits to changes the whole gesture.

The rest of the name sets the terrain: the y drops below the baseline — a tail a designer can turn into an underline or let hang and the double n is a rhythm no other letter pair gives — two identical strokes that must agree.

Kenny is 5 letters: room for a real rhythm without the fatigue of a long run.

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