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
underlined in one return stroke
An upright and unbroken hand. It stands almost straight up, 22 degrees off vertical. It is also one of the few here that lays a line back underneath the name.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
a capital thrown inside a loop · finished on a long sail
A dramatic and urgent hand. The stroke swells and thins by a factor of 3.7. It is the rare one that throws a flat loop right around the L. The "s" in "Lisa" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
underlined in one return stroke
A theatrical and urgent hand. One letter is pushed well past the proportions of its neighbors. Almost nothing else here lays a line back underneath the name.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
a capital thrown inside a loop · finished on a long sail
A theatrical and dramatic hand. One letter is pushed well past the proportions of its neighbors. It is also one of the few here that throws a flat loop right around the L.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
a capital that drops below the line · finished on a long sail
A level and rounded hand. The capital is only 1.8 times the height of the letters after it. It is the rare one that drops the L's tail below the line to weigh it down.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
a capital that drops below the line · finished on a long sail
A grand and dense hand. The capital stands 3.4 times the height of the letters after it. Almost nothing else here drops the L's tail below the line to weigh it down.
Everything starts with the L. 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.
After that, the lowercase run does the work: the dotted i leaves a mark above the line that a fast hand turns into a flick.
Lisa 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.