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Not the kind at the end of a post, the kind you write on documents. How do people develop such good-looking signatures? Mine sucks...it's just script...but real signators(?) have illegible scribbles. HOW?!?!?

They were exceptional scribblers in Kindergarten.

You can read mine, but I plan on gradually degenerating it.

Mine's pretty much my initials and my surname printed. I have pretty distinctive handwriting anyway, so it's not that difficult to have an "individual" signature.

I just draw a line moving my hand a little so it looks like I've tried to write something

in other words I don't really have a signature ;)

Not the kind at the end of a post, the kind you write on documents. How do people develop such good-looking signatures? Mine sucks...it's just script...but real signators(?) have illegible scribbles. HOW?!?!?

Mostly I set out to make mine illegible. Just some semi-random squiggles. I don't write out any of my last name except the first letter before it trails off into nonsense.

I just draw a line moving my hand a little so it looks like I've tried to write something

in other words I don't really have a signature ;)

But why do people do that?

I think a few marks in my signature are identifyable as letters. :p

I have the same problem. My signature seems so blurry compared to everyone else's.

Mine is terrible. :)

I have such a signarature. It started off simple enough; I made a little loop at the 's' at the end of my last name. After a while, when you start signing things a lot, it turns into a complete scribble, so that little loop I did at the end became this giant flourish, and while I know what the signarature is, it's not very legible to most.

An illegible signature is best. My dad's is like the his first and middle initial(not fully) and a scribble.

I changed my last name when I was 19 and so I actually practiced signing the new one for about a week until I had something I could reliably reproduce. (I daydreamed while I was doing this that I was an author at my latest book signing....a man can dream.)

mine is legible but there are so many loops and such that someone would have to really pay attention to copy it..........there is even a cartoon of sorts in it that most people don't notice but I do, so even if someone does copy it, they will be missing one mammal of my name.

My husband appears to write his initials and then scribble all over them :confused:

But why do people do that?

1) It's fast.
2) It's unique.
3) It's very easily reproduced by you and not so easy for anyone else.

Hey Sel Appa, I like my forum signature, do you?

The more you write it the more it degenerates into scribbles...

I like my signature though, I have a shooting star in it because I'm awesome. :)

Just the first letter of my first and last name are semi-legible. The rest are subject to weasel-like scribbles with a random line drawn back through it.

I just wish I could keep mine consistant.

Mine started out so that you could see all of the individual letters in my first and last name. Then the more i did it, the faster I got at it and the more illegible it got. Now you can't really tell what it says.

Years ago, my job required me to copy signatures, and the illegible squiggles are by far the easiest to replicate. Fortunately, signatures don't count for much these days, but you are still better off with a neatly written name than a scribble and a flourish :)

For the first few years that I signed my name on things my signature remained quite legible, in as much as a first time reader could usually tell what my name actually was.

As time wore on, and the jobs I held required that I sign more and more things, it degenerated until it reached the stage where only people who already knew it was my signature could tell that that's what it was.

On reflection, my handwriting has followed the same downward spiral. I had fairly neat handwriting when I was at school, and even enjoyed the calligraphy I was taught in primary school. However, as the years wear on I find myself writing less and less (typing having replaced writing in most arenas) and my handwriting has now reached the stage where I have to write in block capitals otherwise I can't even read my own writing :(

mine's mostly a scribble. not a good one or a fancy one, just an illegible scribble that barely even says my name any more....

Years ago, my job required me to copy signatures, and the illegible squiggles are by far the easiest to replicate. Fortunately, signatures don't count for much these days, but you are still better off with a neatly written name than a scribble and a flourish :)

What job is that? Sounds very dodgy :p

i had an idea for mine then practiced it for ages. it's not particularly complicated, just a bit stylised and extra slanty with overlapping bits and a slash to underline it. everyone says my signature is cool but i've seen plenty that are far more interesting and ornate.

What job is that? Sounds very dodgy :p

Not saying too much, for obvious reasons, but it was in a stockbroker's office. I should emphasise that there was no fraud or anything like that going on - just a massive number of forms arriving right on the deadline, signed in the wrong place. ahem. Look over there! *points*

For the first few years that I signed my name on things my signature remained quite legible, in as much as a first time reader could usually tell what my name actually was.

As time wore on, and the jobs I held required that I sign more and more things, it degenerated until it reached the stage where only people who already knew it was my signature could tell that that's what it was.

On reflection, my handwriting has followed the same downward spiral. I had fairly neat handwriting when I was at school, and even enjoyed the calligraphy I was taught in primary school. However, as the years wear on I find myself writing less and less (typing having replaced writing in most arenas) and my handwriting has now reached the stage where I have to write in block capitals otherwise I can't even read my own writing :(

I typed only for so long I forgot how to write. I had to draw the letters when I first started having to write again after several years off. I also write with only print letters, mostly capitalized.

I just draw a line moving my hand a little so it looks like I've tried to write something

in other words I don't really have a signature ;)

That's cheating!!

I just write the first letter of my first name and my last name...although when I write my last name is gets all wild and scribbly

Hey Sel Appa, I like my forum signature, do you?

Yeah, do you have a link to that post. I can't seem to find it.

Mine looks like it was written by a small child. I have crappy handwriting.

Yeah, do you have a link to that post. I can't seem to find it.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12762799&postcount=4