How do you sign your name?

[jian]

I sign a lot of stuff for work so I tend to just use my three initials, cursive but legible. For legal documents I tend to use my first name, initial, last name, also cursive and legible. My electronic signature is basically the same.

 

[Retros_x]

I have a relatively long German name so I just scribble something unreadable to spare us all the 20 seconds it would cost me to sign in a readable way.

 

[Cruentus]

Cursive, neatly, as the nuns taught it in elementary school. If I don’t write neatly, I’m afraid those nuns would haunt me.

I still write cursive as much as possible, and even practice on occasion. I just lump it all into my calligraphy hobby. Of course, my son can’t read my cursive, as they don’t teach it anymore. He doesn’t really have a signature, sadly.

 

[Ryujin]

Cursive, neatly, as the nuns taught it in elementary school. If I don’t write neatly, I’m afraid those nuns would haunt me.

I still write cursive as much as possible, and even practice on occasion. I just lump it all into my calligraphy hobby. Of course, my son can’t read my cursive, as they don’t teach it anymore. He doesn’t really have a signature, sadly.

 

[el-remmen]

I sign my name the typical way. A couple of legible big letters followed by an illegible scrawl that is close to but not always same each time.

My wife has two signatures. Her actual official sig for endorsing checks and signing contracts and the like and more more legible one for signing her books, since she is an author.

 

[Kichwas]

Just about everything I sign these days is one of those tablet or phone app signing things where you have to use a finger on a little box that, if on a phone, is too small.

So I end up scribbling some nonsense roughly similar to my initials plus one character using the writing system of one of my ancestors to make it distinctive. But on a phone it just comes out as a random mess.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Well, the honest answer is "Badly." Non-cursive first letter of each, name, cursive the rest (and I doubt I still remember how to do most other cursive letters, including capitals). I rarely bother with my middle initial.

My printing is pretty bad (has been forever) and my handwriting was even worse back when I used to use it.

 

[Meech17]

I picked up a sharp, angular, blocky M for my first name from my dad. I'm not sure why, but I saw him write my name on a form or something when I was younger and he did it that way, so I followed suit. The rest of my first name is pretty scribbly. My last name is the same. A large, sharp, angular K and scribbles. All of this is then off set by a big swoopy L I place in the middle for my middle initial. Fun thing, is I have two middle names because my mom was weird, and I've essentially dropped the second initial. For one, I just don't like the aesthetics of the two initials, and I've run into quite a few online forms or E sign programs that only allow a single character for the middle initial slot. Even if you're able to add more, there's a weird conundrum of do I just put both characters? Space or no space? Comma? It's easier to just pretend the second one doesn't exist, and I've gone my entire adult life doing that with minimal issues.

Another fun signature thing.. I worked in a bank when I was younger, and had the opportunity to go tour one of our regional offices where we processed checks and things of that nature. Learning about the behind the scenes of modern banking, and fraud and not what I learned that naturally, there's not like someone in an office somewhere who cross references every check signature to a signature card for validation. The only time it really ever comes up, is in the event of actual fraud occurring, and then it's investigated.

Ever since then, when I sign a digital POS system for a card payment, I just draw a smiley face. My reasoning being, that if I ever have to dispute a fraudulent charge, it would be very easy to look at my history and find the misplaced signature.

 

[Kaodi]

with a pen

How many phones have you ruined that way?

 

[MoonSong]

I ended up being the Judas Goat for the only other Leftie in class, but never got tied. Just the ruler on the back of the hand.

I wasn't tied or abused, but definitely, despite having more muscle in the right hand and being unable to write with the other hand, the multiple cuts and burns I get cooking and doing stuff around the home clearly show I'm still mentally left handed. And even though it is thinner, I have a stronger grip on my left hand.