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
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
An upright and rounded hand. It stands almost straight up, 21 degrees off vertical. It is also one of the few here that lays a line back underneath the name. The "r" in "Ricardo" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
An angular and urgent hand. The turns are cut rather than curved. It is the rare one that lays a line back underneath the name.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
both names in one unbroken line · finished on a long sail
A quick and generous hand. The line carries the momentum of a hand that never slowed down. Almost nothing else here runs both names together as one word.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
the full name · finished on a long sail
A dramatic and airy hand. The stroke swells and thins by a factor of 4.4.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · finished on a long sail
An unbroken and level hand. Only 8 pen lifts in the whole thing.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
the full name · closed with a small loop
An even and deliberate hand. It holds one weight almost the whole way through. Almost nothing else here ties off with a small loop instead of flying away.
The capital R 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 d 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.
7 letters is the length most signatures are built on — enough travel for character, little enough to repeat exactly.
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.