Your signature

[RoJoHen]

Not your TrekBBS signature. Your real signature!

We all have a signature, a way we sign our name. Some of us have very pretty, legible signatures. Others seem to just scribble on the dotted line and pretend it's their name.

How did you develop your signature? Did you learn how to write in cursive and spend hours practicing? Did you get lazy and just start scribbling? Do you have a really long, complicated name that has gotten shorter and less legible over time?

I have really nice handwriting, and for a long time I tried to write out my whole name, but overtime I've gotten lazier, and my last name has gotten significantly less legible. You can read the first letter, but after that there are just a couple big loops that theoretically represent the letters D and K.

 

[ITL]

Mine is a "Big letter, big letter, scribble with a dot above it" signature. Sheer laziness on my part.

 

[Dukat's Major]

Mine was a combination of laziness and an imposed legibility, prescribed by my mother. She said that if it wasn't reasonably legible it would be easier to steal my identity --- so I flourish the first letters and then at least attempt to form the remainder. It doesn't always work

 

[Captain Shaw]

Sometimes you can read my signature but when I am at work I have to sign a sheet every hour and when I am busy its ends up being a squidgy line.

 

[captcalhoun]

mine usually winds up looking like i've tried crossing it out!

i do Scottfry and the Y comes back to cross the T's and then i loop back again over the whole thing.

 

[Dancing Doctor]

I make sure that my first name and the first half of my surname are legible, then I just sort of scribble the rest.

 

[auntiehill]

Mine is a "Big letter, big letter, scribble with a dot above it" signature. Sheer laziness on my part.

Same here. Big loopy letter for first initial, big letter for second initial, and then the last name is a scribbled line with a loop in it somewhere.

 

[Mr. B]

My handwriting leaves a lot to be desired and I stopped using cursive after it was no longer mandatory in elementary school...

I do make a some effort to make it recognizable, though.

 

[Canadave]

My last name contains the sequence "lell" in the middle of it, so when I sign, my last name just becomes a massive collection of loops.

 

[B.J.]

You can see mine in the lower corner of this:
http://bj-o23.deviantart.com/art/Klingon-Blood-Wine-161878311
The first name's legible (not much to it! ), then the last name just gets flattened. There's 7 letters in my last name, but looking at my signature, it looks like maybe 3.

 

[Eyes]

My handwriting is barely legible at the best of times, so when it comes to signatures, it's not pretty.

My first name is normally legible except for the fact the big I at the beginning tends to dwarf the other letters, and the last letter is barely recognisable as a c.

The last name is different. It tends to start well, but around the middle it's hard to read, and I often miss out the last letter.

In general, if you're looking close at my signature, you'd be able to tell its me, but only from the first name and the first half of the last.

 

[Dancing Doctor]

 

[Trippy]

My initials follow alphabetically (LMN) so in highschool, in drafting class, we were working on calligraphy and I was playing with writing, without lifting my pen, my initials. I sorted a way to loop them together distinctively, and I've used this ever since. So my LMN are looped together, with a scribble for my last name with a circle dot above it for the 'i' in my last name (which has 9 letters...too many to write out! )

 

[ares93]

i dont have a signature for the moment 'cause i just added a middle name to my name so i gotta work on something new. just slapping a J between my given name and surname doesnt really cut it...

 

[Goliath]

I have good handwriting, and my signature is ordinarily quite legible, though it does start to decay if I have to sign my name repeatedly. Ordinarily, though, it just has a lot more 'swoop' in the capital letters than normal.

 

[Rek]

Mines pretty short, people always comment on how short it is. One day this women at the bank made a comment about it, and I said "Yes, its short because no one expects a short signature anymore." She laughed and liked that or she thought I was being paranoid, either one.

 

[Cornholio]

umm, I write like a doctor.

and I used to play one on TV.

actually, the older I get, the more my signature resembles my father's.

 

[Mary Ann]

When I first created my signature I stupidly signed my entire name, including my middle name, which I always use. The result was a sig that took a while to write. The surname was unreadable because it's an unusual name and my handwriting is awful. When I married I took my husband's surname and now I sign my first initial and surname, with big loops for the initial and first letter of the surname, illegible squiggles inbetween, and a big S as the end.

 

[Mallory]

I've reached the big letter, long unreadable squiggle phase of life. Unless I'm signing legal documents in which case I put forth a bit more effort.

 

[mari]

My legal signature is almost Palmer-perfect, except my k's (there are two in my last name). Very, very hard to forge. My mother's is similar.

My "other" signature, for signing for UPS packages and such, is a squiggle that may or may not include an S and an L (my initials). I decided long ago that if I get famous, my autograph will be just my first name, and more like my day-to-day handwriting.