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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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[–] homes@piefed.world 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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