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How to learn to so a proper signature?

My signature changes at times, so much so that two different documents I once signed looked like each was done by different people.
 
I just omit about a third of the letters from my name when I sign a document. Oddly, the way it worked out, I leave the consonants (except for the initial "L") out of my first name and the vowels out of my last name. I'm not sure exactly how or why I started doing that - both of my parents have signatures that are almost sickeningly neat.

Flair should also be the last thing you work on; concentration on consistently creating a legible foundation. Random squiggles are the easiest to replicate and reproduce.

That's part of why I just omit letters from my name. What's left are still letters, but it's not necessarily recognizable as being my name.

OTOH, I have a friend with whom I go out drinking from time to time, and one night she asked me to sign the credit card receipt for her tab while she went to the bathroom. Her signature is basically two squiggles, so the bartender never batted an eye when I signed it. (It wasn't even the bar we usually go to, where we're known to the staff by name, and it was extremely crowded that night, so I was a bit surprised not to be questioned.)
 
Though in this day and age of Chip N Pin Card, Contectless payments, Internet banking, telephone banking etc...

How often do we really sign something?

Depends on your job, probably. I know I'm signing various documents every day.
 
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