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
a capital on its own shelf
A restrained and dense hand. No single letter is pushed past its neighbors. It is also one of the few here that stands the name on the L's own foot.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
a swept capital · finished on a long sail
A long-running and deliberate hand. It runs 2.0 times wider than it is tall. It is the rare one that runs a long swept approach into the L.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
a capital that drops below the line · finished on a long sail
An even and quick hand. It holds one weight almost the whole way through. Almost nothing else here drops the L's tail below the line to weigh it down.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
a capital on its own shelf · closed with a small loop
An airy and dramatic hand. The letters are set well apart. It is also one of the few here that stands the name on the L's own foot.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
a capital thrown inside a loop · finished on a long sail
An angular and level hand. The turns are cut rather than curved. It is the rare one that throws a flat loop right around the L.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
underlined in one return stroke
An upright and restrained hand. It stands almost straight up, 21 degrees off vertical. Almost nothing else here lays a line back underneath the name.
The capital L carries the mark. There are 2 distinct professional constructions 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 dotted i leaves a mark above the line that a fast hand turns into a flick.
Levi is a compact name. Nothing needs abbreviating; the six directions below spend their effort on character instead.
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.