I love the instructions at the bottom:

  One last thing: consider where you'll use it. Legal documents and contracts need a signature that's at least partially legible — someone should be able to connect it to your printed name. For everything else, go as abstract as you want.

Because until he changed it, he had a spectacularly hilarious signature, much derided at the time, especially for the fact that it would have made its way onto US currency [1].

I'm still kind of sad he changed it though, would have loved to have a twenty with that signature on it in my office.

0: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/05/07/182033320...

1: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/01/jack-lews-terrible-s...

Its missing the funniest signature. Back when Spain still had monarchy, King Ferdinand VII simply signed his signature “Yo el Rey” - literally “I, the king”.

Made this last night because I needed a signature drawing tool but a Google didn’t reveal any mobile friendly pages with a <15s interaction and no email gate, to get a nice looking signature.

The historical signatures were a nice touch Claude helped me put together for SEO.

On Firefox, under Linux, the carrousel of signatures is not showing a navigation (mouse driven). Only way I got it to work was using the keyboard arrow keys.

Adding my all-time favorite signature - Kurt Vonnegut, who often (not always) built a caricature of himself into his signature. What a flex!

E.g.: https://i0.wp.com/www.themarginalian.org/wp-content/uploads/...

(I think later in life his signatures lost the cigarette)

>Fifty repetitions usually gets you there.

I think that's on the low side. My signature got locked in during my early twenties, when I worked at a commercial AM/FM radio station. I had to sign various transmitter logs (FCC requirement), about six times every three hours as I recall, and I worked six days a week, so a lot of signatures. It still took a while before I could sign consistently without thinking about it (muscle memory).

>One last thing: consider where you'll use it. Legal documents and contracts need a signature that's at least partially legible — someone should be able to connect it to your printed name.

I don't think this is true, although you may need witnesses to your legal signature if the best you can do is sign with an "X". After all, there are people without hands, blind, or other disabilities that might prevent a "normal" signature.

And these days, with paper checks becoming uncommon and credit card payments skipping the paper receipt to sign, how often do people get the chance to sign anything on paper?

>But for everyday use, emails, creative work? It can be as abstract as you like.

I don't think trying to maintain two different signatures makes a lot of sense, but if you are pasting an image (e.g. emails), I suppose it's not that much trouble.

There's also Geronimo's block-letter signature, which for some reason moves me. Sense in it his resigned adaptation to a shifting world and adoption of a new language, after years of resistance.

Having a graphic file of your signature is hella useful. I did it the old school way thirty years ago -- I signed my name on paper until I liked it, scanned it, created .gif and .bmp files. Still use that.

I date myself.. back when I was but a young whippersnapper the NY Post published a series of copies of Nixon's signatures from when he entered office until his resignation. The change was enormous.

I remember there was a very nice website to draw things with touchpad that was mentioned on HN but I couldn't find it in my history. It could be used for signature too I suppose.

Famous signatures or just signatures of the famous? Because I'm surprised there's no Lucas Cranach the Elder dragon signature for example.

“That's not sloppiness — that's your signature finding itself.”

Thanks ChatGPT…