How did you come up with your signature?

I haven’t changed my signature ever. It’s naturally evolved to what it is, and that’s nothing remarkable.

My signature? It’s my name, written in my handwriting. What else would it be? I’m not sure I understand the question. A celebrity giving autographs or a doctor signing prescriptions might have some special shorthand scrawl, but I can’t see why anyone would need an excuse just to sign their name in a normal way.

Naturally it’s evolved over time; I don’t write like a 14-year-old any more. But the biggest change was when I changed my last name on account of marriage. A new name takes a little practice. I have a weird last (married) name, and I used to mess it up if I wasn’t careful.

Mine, which I never liked, just evolved over the years; I don’t recall ever consciously trying to change or improve it. Nowadays, however, I write it so quickly that the last few letters of my last name wind up almost a straight line.

Like most people, my signature started out as my first and last name written in cursive.

Over the years, I stopped writing in cursive entirely and the speed at which I signed my name increased. Also, for the past ten years or so, I sign about five to ten items a day.

As a result, my signature has devolved into basically my first initial – scribble – my last initial – scribble

It’s completely unreadable at this point.

Mine is my first and middle initials and my last name, in fairly normal but faster handwriting. It’s mostly readable. I haven’t ever tried to change it (except when I changed my name) because it’s a hassle with banks etc.

An unreadable scrawl from years of writing rx’s. We were told it was harder to forge them that way and it stuck.

It depends on how much time I’m willing to spend on it. If it’s a form I’m filling out at home or for a job, it’s simply my name in semi-neat cursive. If I’m signing a receipt or something like that, it’s more like half of my first name and a scribble followed by my last initial and a couple of loops. I’ve never consciously changed it through. Is it true that you’d have to alert someone of a signature change? I’ve never heard of such a thing, and it sounds pretty silly.

I think I sign my husband’s name more than my own (first initial, last name). His vision is bad and he can’t make out the tip and total lines on the receipt at a restaurant. And let’s be honest, I’m the one that determines the tip.

First initial & surname written with fluent wild abandon.

It depends on what I’m signing. Professional documents have first and last names, degrees and certifications. Less formal papers can be first initial flowing into last name. I developed a swirly first and last initials that I use for casual uses and plastic transactions – especially on those digital signature thingies (I realized that no one ever checks the signatures).

First and last name written in illegible cursive, with a giant slash through the last name because there’s an “x” in it.

Mine is in cursive except for the capitals of each name, which are a variation of print. I didn’t like a cursive capital S.

When I first got a job as an apartment manager years ago my boss said that his signature was illegible because he didn’t want anyone knowing who made the decision not to return their security deposit. For some reason that made me think that people shouldn’t be able to read mine either.
I also heard that if most of the letters are above the center line you have a good self esteem and if they are below the line you have a bad self esteem. I have no idea if that’s true, but since I heard that a million years ago I began to sign my name completely above the center line.

Mine just happened I didn’t design it. I don’t actually like it, it doesn’t look attractive but I’m not going to try to change it now.

It’s my name, written in my handwriting. What else would it be?

Well, mine is not an illiterate “X”. It’s not that bad. But nobody would discern my name from it, either.

It’s unique, easy for me to write, and hard to copy. That’s why it’s useful.

I deal with legal papers a lot, and we compare a person’s signatures among documents. About once a year, we find a mismatch – an obvious forgery.

Legibility is not important, but consistency is.

Mine is more of a graphic representation than a name. I got tired of having to go back and add when the wanted my “full” name on legal documents. Now I just sign and whatever I say it says, it says.

Penmanship was important to me when I was young. It was something I practiced for hours.

I always was curious as to the way other people were writing and playing around with scripts and scrolls.

I was given a small cheap calligraphy kit at some point. I did use it. But mostly I my first initial is big flourish that is a.combination of styles. The letters after it became illegible fast scrawl most of time and my last initial I copied for the most part from an acquaintance in high school back to illegal fast scrawl but sometimes I add swoops or swirls if it feels right.