Understated · flowing · fully readable
It turns corners instead of rounding them, and that is the whole temperament.
finished on a long sail
A level and airy hand. The capital is only 1.7 times the height of the letters after it.
Signature ideas
Six signature directions for Roy
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 swept capital · closed with a small loop
An urgent and long-running hand. It leans 28 degrees off vertical. It is the rare one that runs a long swept approach into the R.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
Drawn in stages, the way a considered mark is.
finished on a long sail
A generous and rounded hand. It spends 11 loops getting through your name.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
One letter does the performing, and the others hold still for it.
finished on a long sail
An airy and upright hand. The letters are set well apart.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
The capital keeps its place, which puts the emphasis on the whole name.
finished on a long sail
A dense and theatrical hand. The letters are packed close together.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
Pressure where it presses, hairline where it lifts.
a capital thrown inside a loop · finished on a long sail
A restrained and spare hand. No single letter is pushed past its neighbors. Almost nothing else here throws a flat loop right around the R.
What Roy gives a designer
A signature is won or lost at its opening letter. For R, the studio draws from 2 constructions observed in professional hands, and every direction below chooses one and holds it.
What follows the capital decides the middle of the mark: the y drops below the baseline — a tail a designer can turn into an underline or let hang.
Four letters or fewer is the easiest length to keep consistent — Roy can be written in full on everything from a card to a contract.
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.