Signature ideas

Six signature directions for Savanna

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.

Drawn from the name · 6 directions · capital S · hover one to see it in use

Understated · flowing · fully readable

It gives itself room, and reads as unhurried because of it.

the full name · underlined in one return stroke

A level and restrained hand. The capital is only 1.9 times the height of the letters after it. The double "n" in "Savanna" goes down as one motion, so the middle of the name never stops.

Confident · flowing · signature-legible

It turns corners instead of rounding them, and that is the whole temperament.

the full name · finished on a long sail

A quick and urgent hand. The line carries the momentum of a hand that never slowed down. It is the rare one that leaves on an exit stroke long enough to carry the eye off the page. The "r" in "Worth" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.

Commanding · sharp · signature-legible

Nothing curls that does not have to, and nothing is missing.

the full name · finished on a long sail

A grand and unbroken hand. The capital stands 3.3 times the height of the letters after it. Almost nothing else here leaves on an exit stroke long enough to carry the eye off the page.

Confident · sharp · fully readable

Generous with its loops, and unembarrassed about it.

the full name · a capital that drops below the line · underlined in one return stroke

A dramatic and theatrical hand. The stroke swells and thins by a factor of 3.0. It is also one of the few here that drops the S's tail below the line to weigh it down.

Understated · sharp · signature-legible

One letter does the performing, and the others hold still for it.

the full name · underlined in one return stroke

A dramatic and dense hand. The stroke swells and thins by a factor of 3.3.

Commanding · flowing · fully readable

Long and low, it takes the whole width of the line.

the full name · underlined in one return stroke

A deliberate and grand hand. It is built in 15 separate strokes.

What Savanna gives a designer

A signature is won or lost at its opening letter. For S, 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 double n is a rhythm no other letter pair gives — two identical strokes that must agree.

At 7 letters, Savanna 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.

Other names