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 · finished on a long sail
An angular and airy hand. The turns are cut rather than curved. The "r" in "Richard" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
A generous and unbroken hand. It spends 26 loops getting through your name. It is the rare one that runs a long swept approach into the R.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
An unbroken and theatrical hand. Only 8 pen lifts in the whole thing. Almost nothing else here hangs the name off the R as a stem.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
the full name · closed with a small loop
A deliberate and dramatic hand. It is built in 15 separate strokes. It is also one of the few here that ties off with a small loop instead of flying away.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · finished on a long sail
An urgent and level hand. It leans 27 degrees off vertical. It is the rare one that hangs the name off the R as a stem.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
the full name · finished on a long sail
A grand and restrained hand. The capital stands 3.4 times the height of the letters after it.
Everything starts with the R. 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 h and d reach 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.