Understated · flowing · fully readable
Upright and composed, it never looks rushed.
finished on a long sail
A level and restrained hand. The capital is only 2.0 times the height of the letters after it.
Signature ideas
Six signature directions for Miles
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
Written at speed, and it shows in the best way.
a capital thrown inside a loop · finished on a long sail
An airy and long-running hand. The letters are set well apart. It is the rare one that throws a flat loop right around the M.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
Drawn in stages, the way a considered mark is.
underlined in one return stroke
An even and theatrical hand. It holds one weight almost the whole way through. Almost nothing else here lays a line back underneath the name.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
One weight the whole way through, which is what makes it read as modern.
a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
A generous and long-running hand. It spends 12 loops getting through your name. It is also one of the few here that runs a long swept approach into the M.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
Everything rounds, nothing is cornered.
one continuous line
An unbroken and dense hand. Only 3 pen lifts in the whole thing. It is the rare one that adds no closing gesture at all.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
The capital dominates, and the rest of the name follows quietly.
a capital thrown inside a loop · finished on a long sail
A restrained and generous hand. No single letter is pushed past its neighbors. Almost nothing else here throws a flat loop right around the M.
What Miles gives a designer
A signature is won or lost at its opening letter. For M, the studio draws from 2 constructions observed in professional hands, and every direction below chooses one and holds it.
After that, the lowercase run does the work: the l reaches into the ascender line, which gives the mark its upper silhouette and the dotted i leaves a mark above the line that a fast hand turns into a flick.
At 5 letters, Miles sits in the comfortable middle — long enough to build rhythm, short enough to stay one uninterrupted gesture.
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.