Signature ideas

Six signature directions for Tatiana

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

Pressure where it presses, hairline where it lifts.

the full name · a capital on its own shelf

An upright and spare hand. It stands almost straight up, 21 degrees off vertical. It is also one of the few here that adds no closing gesture at all. The "r" in "Worth" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.

Confident · flowing · signature-legible

Measured rather than dashed off, and the steadier for it.

the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke

A restrained and dense hand. No single letter is pushed past its neighbors. It is the rare one that runs a long swept approach into the T.

Commanding · sharp · signature-legible

One movement, barely interrupted, which is why it repeats.

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

A grand and compact hand. The capital stands 3.3 times the height of the letters after it.

Confident · sharp · fully readable

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

the full name · closed with a small loop

A generous and theatrical hand. It spends 40 loops getting through your name. It is also one of the few here that ties off with a small loop instead of flying away.

Understated · sharp · signature-legible

The capital keeps its place, which puts the emphasis on the whole name.

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

A rounded and airy hand. Every turn is rounded off.

Commanding · flowing · fully readable

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

A deliberate and urgent hand. It is built in 16 separate strokes.

What Tatiana 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 t reaches 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.

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