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.

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pimlottc 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The Preview app in macOS includes a nice signature tool. You can create a signature using the touchpad or digitize a written signature using a webcam

https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/fill-out-and-sign-pd...

	▲	al_borland an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I wish Preview had a better way to import signatures. I was messing around one day and made one I really liked with Apple Notes on the iPad. It looks like I eventually got it in Preview, but it doesn't look as clean as it did in Notes. I think I ended up printing it out and holding it up to my webcam, but it wasn't easy. I remember fighting with it a fair bit and I'm still not happy with the results. You'd think Apple Notes and Preview would be able to talk to each other enough to import directly.

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whycome 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is cool. It seems hard to add just dots to signature? It may be some kind of delay waiting for a touch action.

	▲	elliotbnvl 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This was surprisingly tricky, but fixed! The issue was that short tap strokes were being fed through the stroke-rendering library (perfect-freehand), which applies start/end taper over a configurable length. When the total stroke distance is shorter than the combined taper length, the stroke tapers to nothing — so dots just disappeared. The fix detects tap-like strokes and renders them directly as small ellipses, bypassing the stroke pipeline.