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Millennial here. I just write my name down in cursive. For a while when I was a teenager I tried to half-ass a real signature by adding come curves on top, but I gave up on that years ago.
Signatures, like wax seals, are an obsolete relic of an age before instant telecommunications and cryptographic security. The idea was to have unique glyph that was easy for the owner to recreate and easy for other people to read and compare with other examples of the same glyph but hard for other people to forge.
These days it basically works on the honor system; I have never seen anybody compare signatures against an example on file before authenticating a transaction.
I have. A colleague who persistently couldn't match his signature to the one a bank had on file was a constant pleasure. Then again, we mongrels used fax machines up to 2020 that I know for sure, and probably are still using to this day as well.
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