Signatures

Do you need a nifty signature?

The Analog Attorney thinks so.

I frankly don't know if you do or not, but it's a good thing to have one that's at least legible.

Going back in history, you'll find most of the at least notable signatures were written with something other than a ballpoint pen.  Frankly, I suspect that ballpoints have helped destroy legible signatures.  They have a uniformity to their writing that fountain pens lack, and they're really fast to write with.  Faster than legibility allows for.

Well, I don't know if the Analog Attorney is really correct.  Anymore, there's a lot of highly illegible signatures out there applied by pretty successful people. And in the law, the "digital signature" is coming in more and more, which isn't a signature at all, just a sign that the person whose name the document is in has supposedly read it and approved of it.