Understated · flowing · fully readable
Compact, with its weight gathered in one place.
the full name
An airy and upright hand. The letters are set well apart. It is also one of the few here that hangs the name off the M as a stem.
Signature ideas
Six signature directions for Mario
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
It turns corners instead of rounding them, and that is the whole temperament.
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
An unbroken and long-running hand. Only 8 pen lifts in the whole thing.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
Written at speed, and it shows in the best way.
the full name · a swept capital · closed with a small loop
A dramatic and urgent hand. The stroke swells and thins by a factor of 4.2. Almost nothing else here runs a long swept approach into the M. The "r" in "Mario" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
Drawn in stages, the way a considered mark is.
the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
A rounded and generous hand. Every turn is rounded off. It is also one of the few here that runs a long swept approach into the M.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
The capital keeps its place, which puts the emphasis on the whole name.
the full name · finished on a long sail
A spare and theatrical hand. Only 10 loops in the whole mark. It is the rare one that leaves on an exit stroke long enough to carry the eye off the page.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
No letter shouts over another, which is rarer than it sounds.
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
A grand and upright hand. The capital stands 2.5 times the height of the letters after it. Almost nothing else here hangs the name off the M as a stem.
What Mario gives a designer
Everything starts with the M. 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.
5 letters is the length most signatures are built on — enough travel for character, little enough to repeat exactly.
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.