Understated · flowing · fully readable
Upright and composed, it never looks rushed.
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
A level and airy hand. The capital is only 1.9 times the height of the letters after it.
Signature ideas
Six signature directions for Kory
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.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
No letter shouts over another, which is rarer than it sounds.
the full name · a swept capital · closed with a small loop
An airy and spare hand. The letters are set well apart. It is the rare one that runs a long swept approach into the K. The "r" in "Kory" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
Pressure where it presses, hairline where it lifts.
the full name · finished on a long sail
A quick and unbroken hand. The line carries the momentum of a hand that never slowed down. Almost nothing else here leaves on an exit stroke long enough to carry the eye off the page.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
It turns corners instead of rounding them, and that is the whole temperament.
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
A theatrical and even hand. One letter is pushed well past the proportions of its neighbors. It is also one of the few here that hangs the name off the K as a stem.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
Generous with its loops, and unembarrassed about it.
the full name · finished on a long sail
A level and urgent hand. The capital is only 2.0 times the height of the letters after it. It is the rare one that leaves on an exit stroke long enough to carry the eye off the page.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
Compact, with its weight gathered in one place.
the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
A deliberate and upright hand. It is built in 10 separate strokes. Almost nothing else here runs a long swept approach into the K.
What Kory 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.
Four letters or fewer is the easiest length to keep consistent — Kory can be written in full on everything from a card to a contract.
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.