Signature ideas

Six signature directions for Tanner

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 T · 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 · a capital on its own shelf · finished on a long sail

A spare and quick hand. Only 4 loops in the whole mark. The double "n" in "Tanner" 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 · a capital on its own shelf · finished on a long sail

An even and urgent hand. It holds one weight almost the whole way through. The "r" in "Worth" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.

Commanding · sharp · signature-legible

Compact, with its weight gathered in one place.

the full name · a capital on its own shelf · finished on a long sail

A quick and airy hand. The line carries the momentum of a hand that never slowed down.

Confident · sharp · fully readable

Upright and composed, it never looks rushed.

the full name · underlined in one return stroke

A long-running and measured hand. It runs 6.0 times wider than it is tall. It is also one of the few here that lays a line back underneath the name.

Understated · sharp · signature-legible

Generous with its loops, and unembarrassed about it.

the full name · finished on a long sail

A level and unbroken hand. The capital is only 1.7 times the height of the letters after it.

Commanding · flowing · fully readable

The capital dominates, and the rest of the name follows quietly.

the full name · a swept capital · finished on a long sail

A dramatic and angular hand. The stroke swells and thins by a factor of 3.5. Almost nothing else here runs a long swept approach into the T.

What Tanner gives a designer

The capital T 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 double n is a rhythm no other letter pair gives — two identical strokes that must agree.

At 6 letters, Tanner 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