I’ve been wondering, if you never learned cursive writing, how do you sign your name, like on a lease or other place where you have to sign?
Do you just print your name like you would anything else? Or maybe you looked up how to write just the cursive letters needed for your signature? Or maybe invented a way to sort of connect your printed letters together so it looks like a signature? Or … ?
edit: Specifically hoping to hear from people who did not learn to write cursive, please indicate if that applies in your answer. Thanks
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I had a cursive writing handbook thing in 3rd grade… then never saw it ever again.
Just randomly scribble quickly like chicken scratch and that’s the “signature”
I learned some, like shit and crap and stuff
Signed,
𝒞𝓇𝒶𝓅 𝒮𝒽𝒾𝓉
I’ve had customers like this. Usually they just write their name in block letters. There’s no rule that says a signature has to be written in cursive so it still works.
When I bought my first car, my dad (who owned the dealership lol) shredded the paperwork that I signed in cursive, and made me re-write in block letters. It’s the only car or other big-expense/important thing that I didn’t sign for with my usual signature.
My other confusing problem with that transaction was I wasn’t allowed to buy the kind of vehicle I wanted. Yes, I was already an adult living on my own by then, but I figured he knew best. (he did not)
Thanks, this is the kind of information I’m looking for.
Clearly you haven’t seen many signatures.
Mine is a scrawl that no one could identify, and I learned cursive a long, long time ago.
I’ve recently taken to drawing figures whenever I have to electronically sign something.
I once saw a signature that was a circle with a line. like O----. And that was on his driver’s license, like he chose that.
Clearly you haven’t seen many signatures. Mine is a scrawl that no one could identify, and I learned cursive a long, long time ago.
I’m old and have seen very many signatures of cursive writers so I know that most are scrawl-like and only slightly resemble the letters they’re based on. What I haven’t seen is signatures of the non-cursive-knowing signers, which is why I’m asking the question and hoping to get responses from those who never learned cursive.
For people who learned cursive, it’s natural and intuitive to develop a unique, flowing signature that’s hard for someone else either to forge or even guess what it might look like. So my question is trying to understand if those who’ve only ever printed also develop unique signatures like that, or if their signatures look closer to how they would normally print their name.
For people who learned cursive, it’s natural and intuitive to develop a unique, flowing signature that’s hard for someone else either to forge or even guess what it might look like.
I learned cursive and no it fucking isn’t natural and intuitive. My signature was never consistent when I tried and now I just scribble chicken scratch that doesn’t even superficially resemble the letters in my name because I don’t regularly write in cursive and signatures don’t matter 99.99% of the time.
At least in the US, from past reading, I believe that there’s no legal requirement for a signature to actually be your name written in cursive.
I have an uncle who designed his signature before he learned to write in cursive. When he was a child he just practiced until he found a scribble that looked nice and chose it. That’s what he uses even today, decades later.
His signature doesn’t resemble his printed or cursive name at all. However, if you look at it it fits right in with the weird signatures that people choose to do.
i use digital id with a cryptographic signature. get with the times, grandpa!
more seriously: i learned cursive not because it was compulsory, but because i have fine motor issues and the teachers couldn’t read my normal handwriting. so they thought cursive would help. unfortunately i’m also left-handed, so all it did was give me cramps, make my hand dirty, and tear up the paper even more. eventually i got an alphasmart.
i’ve never even been able to make two instances of the same letter consistent, nevermind a whole word. thankfully a signature alone is not a valid identification method.
I learned cursive, but my signature doesn’t actually resemble what my name would look like written in cursive. It’s more of a highly stylized version of what my name would look like in cursive, but developed over the last 40 years or so. Kind of a piece of art that I developed that is very much mine and I’d be very surprised if anyone could ever convincingly copy it. That sort of the point of the signature.
I used to write it on checks, and I paint it on pieces of art that I make.
For what it’s worth, I also have about six different types of cursive handwriting, plus a couple of different types of fancy script/calligraphy handwriting, in addition to a few different types of regular handwriting
Just a reflexive squiggle with the appropriate number of ascenders and descenders.
One attribute you want in a signature is that no one would be able to fake it from samples of your other handwriting—and for that, not using cursive normally is a plus.
