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 upright and restrained hand. It stands almost straight up, 21 degrees off vertical. It is also one of the few here that leaves on an exit stroke long enough to carry the eye off the page. The "r" in "Rodrigo" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
the full name · finished on a long sail
A dramatic and spare hand. The stroke swells and thins by a factor of 3.6. It is the rare one that hangs the name off the R as a stem.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · closed with a small loop
A grand and dense hand. The capital stands 3.2 times the height of the letters after it. Almost nothing else here hangs the name off the R as a stem.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
A theatrical and upright hand. One letter is pushed well past the proportions of its neighbors. It is also one of the few here that runs a long swept approach into the R.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
An airy and generous hand. The letters are set well apart. It is the rare one that lays a line back underneath the name.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
the full name · a swept capital · closed with a small loop
A generous and deliberate hand. It spends 55 loops getting through your name. Almost nothing else here runs a long swept approach into the R.
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.
What follows the capital decides the middle of the mark: the d reaches into the ascender line, which gives the mark its upper silhouette, the g drops below the baseline — a tail a designer can turn into an underline or let hang and the dotted i leaves a mark above the line that a fast hand turns into a flick.
Rodrigo is 7 letters: room for a real rhythm without the fatigue of a long run.
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.