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E.g.: https://i0.wp.com/www.themarginalian.org/wp-content/uploads/...
(I think later in life his signatures lost the cigarette)
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...
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. The guy who was Secretary of the Treasury after Geithner and before Mnuchin, Jack Lew, eventually must have taken that advice [0]. Because until…
>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 (…
Other cultures, other rules. I can testify that there are countries where this is definitely a requirement.
Hence I have an id card which does not bear my signature but a legible rendering of my name.
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”.
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.
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.