What does a persons signature say about them?
When I was young I had a very strong desire to create such an identifiable signature. I don’t know what I was inspired most by, logos that make use of extravagant cursive (Disney, etc) or my lazy attitude towards penmanship. Either way, I came up with this horribly convoluted mess of chicken-scratch. It was so messed up as to be entirely illegible, so I paired it down to the initials (which were the most dramatic forms in the first place) and that worked out. I’d say if you want to reinvent your own it’s like anything else, grab a blank peice of paper and fill it up untill you find something attractive. Analyze that, filter it down and repeat untill you get something that’s physically comfortable to write (in terms of the strokes and their repeatibility) as well as being visually satisfying to you.
I used to write out my entire first and last names in cursive, but since my last name is 10 letters long, it was cumbersome to say the least. It now consists of the first 3 letters of my first name and the first 3 letters of my last name followed by a stylized underscore with some dots above it where the ‘i’s would be if I bothered to write it out. It’s not pretty, but it works.
I stole the capital “H” from the Hilton logo for the first letter of my last name (I thought the two curves looked cool). That was back in grade school, when I used a lowercase “t” for my first name, ’cause it was easier than a regular capital “T”. Then in college, one of my professors passed an attendance roll around and one of the students before me signed his name (which began with a T) with a single curve, sort of like the curve of a bass clef. Been doing it that way ever since. I say just look around, be inspired, and fiddle.
I got a job that required me signing my name many times a day. Writers cramp convinced me that there are too many letters in my name (7 letters in each). I did like several other people describe. I took (lots of) paper and kind of doodled until I came up with something that I like the look of and that only takes a few swoops of the pen to write. Just a thought – if you decide to change your signature, you might like to contact your bank and find out how to update their records. I had a pain in the ass experience with my bank, maybe you can save yourself the same annoyance. When I was making a withdrawl at a human teller – which I rarely do – they checked my signature against the signature they had on record, and they didn’t match. I was actually pleased to know that they’re that careful. I pointed out that I opened my account with them when I was eight years old, so it should hardly be surprising that my signature had changed. She checked the dates and it turned out I was right. Then I
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