VIDEO: Learn to sign beautifully

Here's how to learn a beautiful signature

Is your signature too meaningless, too short, too long, too childlike, too legible or too illegible for you? With practice, you can learn a new beautiful signature.

1. Write your signature. To write Put your signature on a piece of paper and enlarge the font with the copier.

   

2. Check signature. Decide what you don't like about your signature.

   

3. Write names. Write out your name in normal cursive and in block capitals.

   

4. Try variations. Look at your handwriting and try different handwriting fonts. Fill in several sheets.

   



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5. Enlarge. Choose the one that you like best from the variants you have created. Enlarge this with a photocopier to DIN A5 or better DIN A4.

   

6. Breaks. Place tracing paper over the new signature and follow it up several times.

   

7. Practice. Practice until you have the new signature on it.

   

How you can design your new signature

To try out beautiful signatures and their variants, try the following tips:

• Successful curves and harmonious curves of the letters are beautiful.
• If your name contains a "G", you can write the loop curved and make it more or less large.
• If it contains an "S", you can embellish it with harmonious curves.
• A "T" or "F" as the initial letter are suitable as a long roof over the signature.
• Get inspiration from other people's signatures.
• Practice with a fountain pen that can be used to write a beautiful typeface.
• It is chic when the last letter written out is underlined in an elegant arc to the back.

What you should be aware of in terms of bureaucracy

Also think about bureaucratic measures:

• If the change is severe, so that the bank, insurance company and the like could question your identity, inform all relevant bodies.
• Get new EC and credit cards if handwritten identification is required when paying.
• Apply for new identification documents.

You don't have to be satisfied with an unsightly signature. Invest the effort of learning and bureaucracy. Your signature is an important expression of yourself.