Your handwritten signature.

[vash]

Is it cool? How many iterations do you think you went thru before you landed in your current sig?

I’ve seen badass signatures. Swooping lines with random dots. Unforgeable signatures. Mine is just my name in cursive. Boring. It just morphed. One giant iteration.

[fastfredracing]

I gave up years ago, it is just a squiggly mess that looks nothing like the letters it is supposed to represent .
Imagine a lifetime of writing out Frederick C Grosshaupt III.
If my name was Vash, it would be a whole different story

[KFC911]

Which one? Formally signing a document or the varying scribbled jibberish that even I can't read otherwise .

Used to go on music cruises .... lots of scribbled receipts for drinks.. LOTS! After the cruise... it was a hoot looking back at my sigs as the days progressed... and just forget about those at 4 am .

[craigster59]

After joining the military and buying a few houses mine has a familiar rhythm to the scribble but you'd be hard pressed to be able to guess my name.

[vash]

Originally Posted by KC911

Which one? Formally signing a document or the varying scribbled jibberish that even I can't read otherwise .

Used to go on music cruises .... lots of scribbled receipts for drinks.. LOTS! After the cruise... it was a hoot looking back at my sigs as the days progressed... and just forget about those at 4 am .

Awesome!

[Norm K]

When signing documents, I prefer my signature over initials; it's much quicker because I don't have to lift and move the pen.

It's not uncommon that I have to remind someone that I'm applying my signature, not my name.

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[masraum]

Nope. I should have been a Dr. My penmanship has been crap since day 1 and has only gotten worse over the years.

I so rarely write anything anymore that isn't instead typed on some sort of electronic device, that I have to really think about writing anything including my signature.

I've seen what you're talking about, the signatures that are nearly art.

Mine is probably similar to the above. The beginning may bear some resemblance to the cursive "S" and from there on out, it's a squiggle at best.

[GH85Carrera]

Totally depends on what I am signing. For legal documents I take the time to make a recognizable deliberate signature. For my credit card or debit card, just a mark is enough. Often just a wavy line and always minimum effort.

One of my friends signs whatever pops into his brain. He may write dog, bagel, or draw a stick figure or some symbol like a triangle or square.

[Evans, Marv]

I've been a handwriting retard since aI first started learning it in elementary school. You'd never guess what the name is by reading my signature. If I want something I write to be read & maybe understood, I half print/half write it.

[pwd72s]

The shake of old age..."non specific tremor", I think it's called. I used to have good handwriting...almost makes me cry when I look at how legible and clear it was 20 years ago. Today? It amazes me the bank still processes the few checks I write...my signature varies so much from one to another.

[Evans, Marv]

^^^^ My wife makes fun of me for writing checks.

[biosurfer1]

My is crap, always has been and doubt will ever get better.

In fact it's likely getting worse. I had a DMV person question me once when transferring ownership of a car I sold, since my sig nature didnt really match the one on my license...probably because I had signed it 22 years earlier and cared more about clarity back then??

[KFC911]

For the last election, I requested a mail-in ballot and you had to sign the online request ... I scribbled something. I was afraid to send the signed ballot in after thinking about it .... they check, and there was no way in hell the two sigs would even be close to matching .

I voted in person instead.

[GH85Carrera]

My CPA's signature if a vertical squiggle loop. Like a distorted lower case J and there is no J in his name. He signs a ton of things everyday and he wants a easy and fast signature.

Back in Alabama at my first job I worked with an old black man that was almost illiterate. He could read and write at a first grade level. His signature was just an X. He said that was all he was taught, and he learned to read and write over the years just enough to get by.

[Tishabet]

I have essentially illegible handwriting, and my signature follows suit. It basically evolved from me writing out my name as a kid, then getting faster and faster at doing it until individual letters devolved into lines and shapes and here I am in my 40s. This signature contains both my first and last name... you can see the "G" in "Grant" and that's about where it ends.

For "serious" docs (mortgage, offer letters, etc) I add a "chop" as well.

[white85carrera]

I view it as "making my mark" not necessary to be decipherable as my actual name but one I could without a doubt ID as mine and if you saw it often enough would know it to be "that hippy dude with the 911". has not really changed in 35 years

[Shaun @ Tru6]

this has been my signature for the last 10 years for everything that isn't a legal document. Those have maybe an extra swoosh or two. I always get a kick from old people very carefully signing the screens at grocery store self-checkout.

[vash]

Originally Posted by Tishabet

I have essentially illegible handwriting, and my signature follows suit. It basically evolved from me writing out my name as a kid, then getting faster and faster at doing it until individual letters devolved into lines and shapes and here I am in my 40s. This signature contains both my first and last name... you can see the "G" in "Grant" and that's about where it ends.

For "serious" docs (mortgage, offer letters, etc) I add a "chop" as well.

see? that is a bad ass signature!! mine looks like a I'm practicing cursive.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Evans, Marv

I've been a handwriting retard since aI first started learning it in elementary school. You'd never guess what the name is by reading my signature. If I want something I write to be read & maybe understood, I half print/half write it.

I do not write in cursive, I print...third grade, my teacher Sister Peter Ellen, almost left the Order over my handwriting.

Now? My signature looks exactly like Shaun's with minor changes.

Eerie.

[cabmandone]

I try to never sign my name the same way. Keeps folks on their toes.