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Famous Signatures Through History

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Re: Famous Signatures Through History

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Post by al_borland »

pimlottc wrote: post #18
elliotbnvl wrote: post #2

Made this last night because I needed a signature drawing tool but a Google didn’t reveal any mobile friendly pages with a The historical signatures were a nice touch Claude helped me put together for SEO.

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...

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.

Re: Famous Signatures Through History

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Post by jihadjihad »

fenomas wrote: post #21

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)

Vonnegut also managed to design the logo for Claude half a century before it existed [0].

0: https://astrofella.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/...

Re: Famous Signatures Through History

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Post by donkeyboy »

InitialLastName wrote: post #8
donkeyboy wrote: post #5

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”.

What am I missing? Spain is still a monarchy [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_VI

My bad

Re: Famous Signatures Through History

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Post by whycome »

elliotbnvl wrote: post #14
whycome wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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, byp…

Amazing! And thanks for the insight into what caused it. Thats useful even if just to understand how this specific library works.
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