Your signature: Is it legible? What's yours like?

whirlpool

My sister is always giving out to me when she sees me signing things (like when we rented together and I had to sign each page on a 36-page contract :rolleyes: ) because, she says, it's impossible to read what my name is, i.e. my name is not legible from my signature.

She has a point - my signature is mainly my first initial attached to a long horizontal squiggle followed by my second initial followed by a long horizontal squiggle.

I think this ended up being my signature because I find signing things over and over again extremely tedious, and it just ended up being the easiest way.

My sister's signature, in the meantime, involves each letter of her full name written out clearly. But isn't the point of a signature merely to provide a unique symbol that can only be attributed to you and nobody else? I mean don't they get people who have severe spelling difficulties to merely make their mark (with ink) somehow, and doesn't that cover it?

What's your signature like? Is it easy to make out the letters of your name from it? Have you ever had any complaints??

I'm just wondering if the type of signature that mine is bothers other people, and if I should change it. :cool:

And no it's not important, just a random thought :rolleyes:

chin_grin

Squiggle mc squiggle. I'm a lefty so nothing is legible.

Snakeblood

whirlpool wrote: »

My sister is always giving out to me when she sees me signing things (like when we rented together and I had to sign each page on a 36-page contract :rolleyes: ) because, she says, it's impossible to read what my name is, i.e. my name is not legible from my signature.

She has a point - my signature is mainly my first initial attached to a long horizontal squiggle followed by my second initial followed by a long horizontal squiggle.

I think this ended up being my signature because I find signing things over and over again extremely tedious, and it just ended up being the easiest way.

My sister's signature, in the meantime, involves each letter of her full name written out clearly. But isn't the point of a signature merely to provide a unique symbol that can only be attributed to you and nobody else? I mean don't they get people who have severe spelling difficulties to merely make their mark (with ink) somehow, and doesn't that cover it?

What's your signature like? Is it easy to make out the letters of your name from it? Have you ever had any complaints??

I'm just wondering if the type of signature that mine is bothers other people, and if I should change it. :cool:

And no it's not important, just a random thought :rolleyes:

It's a poor squiggle, that varies drastically all the time. I also sometimes spell my name incorrectly, but that's mostly because I try to do the signature so quickly that I don't have to look at it. My life is fraught with misery in this regard.

chin_grin

Snakeblood wrote: »

My life is fraught with mystery in this regard.

FYP.

Fluorescence

Mine is my full name in my normal handwriting. Whether or not it's legible is another matter :pac:

I always wanted a cool signature but I couldn't be arsed trying to make it more "signature"-like.

ElleEm

I often think that those people with completely illegible signatures are filled with a sense of their own importance.

I have the same signature as my handwriting, roundy and girly.

Sauve

Mine is legible to me anyway....
Don't know if anyone else can read it

chin_grin

ElleEm wrote: »

I often think that those people with completely illegible signatures are filled with a sense of their own importance.

Bit of a contradiction no? I thought the more legible the signature the more that person would like the recipient to read it. Maybe.

whirlpool

ElleEm wrote: »

I often think that those people with completely illegible signatures are filled with a sense of their own importance.

Well mine is fairly illegible and I am in no way filled with a sense of my own importance. It comes from a place of trying to prevent my hand from being sore when I have to sign a lot of things at the same time, and to speed things up, and to not waste other people's time when I'm in the bank or post office etc and there is a queue behind me.

Hope that clears that one up for you

brummytom

I'm not even sure mine's my own name anymore

lau1247

combination of chinese character with alphabets.. small weirdly.. must try to sign it larger

ElleEm

whirlpool wrote: »

Well mine is fairly illegible and I am in no way filled with a sense of my own importance. It comes from a place of trying to prevent my hand from being sore when I have to sign a lot of things at the same time, and to speed things up, and to not waste other people's time when I'm in the bank or post office etc and there is a queue behind me.

Hope that clears that one up for you

It's just that whole "celebrity squiggle" thing...

billymitchell

Mines like

C______ C_______l

Cant do joined up writing, and couldnt be bothered learning now

Snakeblood

chin_grin wrote: »

FYP.

NOW IT'S FRAUGHT WITH CONFUSION.

My name is URL

Mine's never the same twice.. so not really even a signature

jester77

Mine is always different, I just scribble. All my cards have a different looking signature, just as well no one ever compares!

Contessa Raven

Mine is really clear. When I was in school my report cards all said that my handwriting was terrible. So it has made me paranoid about signing and writing things. It's ingrained in me now to make everything I write legible.

Most people still spell my name wrong though! :mad: (It's an unusual name but still!)

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Azureus

Mines my initials with a squiggle in between.

Abi

My first initial, dot, second initial with a scrawl after that. so you get my initials, but the rest is indecipherable.

Solnskaya

squiggle-just the initials as well. Sign a few hundred papers at a sitting and you quickly lose the fancy one/

Temptamperu

JCin cursive followed by a squiggle. Sometimes a five pointed star if im feeling frisky.

decisions

Legible, no more like Initial, squiggle, Initial, squiggle.

im invisible

mine gets progressivly worse from left to right, first name is pretty legible, and the first 2 letters of my surname, maybe. then letters start to morph and combine till its just a big scribble at the end.

MungBean

Mine is always different, I'm on jobseekers allowance at the moment (Yep I'm scrounger scum) and I was actually called in because of "discrepancies" with my signing dockets, asked for ID, quizzed and made sign my name on a form 6-7 times to show how it differs.

The first name is usually legible though, last name not as much.

phasers

first letter followed by a squiggle. It varies all the time too, I don't really have a proper signature...

Killer Pigeon

I wouldn't call it illegible, just abstract.

alwaysadub

I write my whole name, most of it is legible!

Novella

My signature is definitely legible. I think I have pretty distinctive hand-writing, it's really big and I lean so hard with the pen. I dot all my i's with circles.
Someone once told me that my signature would be easy to forge so I told them to try. They couldn't even get close. I think it'd be easier to forge a signature which is just initial-squiggle-initial-squiggle.