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 swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
An angular and level hand. The turns are cut rather than curved. It is also one of the few here that runs a long swept approach into the L. The "r" in "Lori" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
a capital on its own shelf · finished on a long sail
An urgent and airy hand. It leans 31 degrees off vertical. It is the rare one that stands the name on the L's own foot.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
a capital that drops below the line · finished on a long sail
A measured and unbroken hand. The pen keeps one pace instead of accelerating through.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
a capital that drops below the line · closed with a small loop
A theatrical and compact hand. One letter is pushed well past the proportions of its neighbors. It is also one of the few here that ties off with a small loop instead of flying away.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
a capital that drops below the line
A rounded and theatrical hand. Every turn is rounded off. It is the rare one that adds no closing gesture at all.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
a capital thrown inside a loop · finished on a long sail
A dense and even hand. The letters are packed close together. Almost nothing else here throws a flat loop right around the L.
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.
What follows the capital decides the middle of the mark: the dotted i leaves a mark above the line that a fast hand turns into a flick.
At 4 letters, Lori is short enough to sign at full length every time — the design question is presence, not speed.
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.