Is it even possible, or do you oog back into your old one?
The river of time (and electronic signing things at stores) have worn my signature into a line with two bumps on it. I’m acquiring a new last name next month, and I thought, holy crap, how the hell do you learn to sign a different name? (What wizardry is that?) So then I thought, hey, maybe I can work on a really pretty Old People signature since I have to start signing with this weird new name anyway.
So have any of you done it? Any tips on getting that cool Spencer look (without, you know, trying to learn how to write like a damned grownup)?
Well, if it really is a line with two bumps, why change it? Mine devolved into a short, unintelligible squiggle long before I changed my name, and I realized that it could just as easily stand for my new name as my old one. I figured the most important things about my signature are that it’s consistent, and that I can tell I wrote it. So I left it alone.
But if you really want to change it, my suggestion is to just write it over and over (and over) until it flows on its own. Hundreds and hundreds of times. In a former job, I had to sign a lot of letters, and that’s how my sig turned from tidy Old Person cursive to the squiggle. I also had to sign on other peoples’ behalf sometimes, and repetition was the only way to make it look natural. It should work for a new name, too.
I like the illegible scrawl that is my signature. I can sign my name so it can be read if I slow down, but I don’t consider that my signature.
I used to process cheques at work and saw a lot of signatures… from the easily read to the barely decipherable to something that looked like little more than a curved line.