How long should a signature line be?

I've seen lines from margin to margin and I've seen lines on which you couldn't write your initials.?ÿ I guess it depends on whose name is gonna wind up there...Jo Smith or Balpaxaminam Zarapak Vihopsidagian.

I usually make it somewhere about half the length from margin to margin.

As long as it needs to be to satisfy the reviewer.?ÿ

The Oregon LS stamp has a void about 2" wide within which the registrant is to apply his/her signature. So that's my answer to your poll. 2 inches.?ÿ

Depends on the size of the drawing.

as long as a piece of string

I stopped using a signature line a couple years ago. I will list my name and registration number, but I sign and date over my seal.

Empirical evidence collected over the last few decades indicates that 25% shorter than the space actually required to sign my name seems to be some sort of accepted standard.?ÿ?ÿ

Posted by: @james-fleming

Empirical evidence collected over the last few decades indicates that 25% shorter than the space actually required to sign my name seems to be some sort of accepted standard.?ÿ?ÿ

Empirical evidence over the last few decades indicates that anything I have to look at is getting smaller.?ÿ

Labels on pill bottles are a good example.?ÿ 😉

Posted by: @paden-cash

?ÿanything I have to look at is getting smaller.?ÿ

Especially printed maps for me.?ÿ I have a "sportsman's atlas" that shows every rural road and every public hunting/fishing spot in Iowa, on 99 pages.?ÿ I now have to use a magnifying glass for it.

The line in my checkbooks is a tad over 2.5 inches in length.?ÿ Make it three inches to allow for the professional initials.

I said tad, but it could be a smidge.?ÿ Have always had trouble distinguishing between the two.

Was it Samuel Clemens who said a man's legs should be long enough to reach he ground?

OK, I think it should be 4" long, to accomodate everyone regardless of penmanship capabilities.

Slightly unrelated to the OP but my full name has four names, and including spaces that adds up to 25 letters. On the customs/immigration form for a country that I frequent, it has squares for each letter for everything you have to fill in, and for the "full name" section it has exactly 25 squares, so that's how I know I've entered the twilight zone.

What ever length you choose, make them all the same.?ÿ You don't want to short change someone causing an approval hick-up.?ÿ?ÿ

..... whatever it takes..... legible and complete, not abbreviated or shrunken or expanded....

Of course that makes sense.....the intake specific personnel will be the harbingers of their upper echelon and their agendas.....

I wish my name was bigger, another goal of getting licensed...wreaking havoc on the stolid overly serious nonlicensed naysaying rabble rousers.....

(Mic gently set upon a red velvet pillow in a solitary spotlit box)

Posted by: @jitterboogie

legible and complete, not abbreviated or shrunken or expanded....

... which brings up the question of whether there are any requirements that a signature be readable by another person.

I see many 'signatures' shat look like random scrawls, such that they might as well be a customized 'X'. I suppose the person can reproduce a similar scrawl on demand.

Yet one time a bank teller complained the 'i' in my signature looked like an 'e' so my name wasn't spelled right.

The impetus of my op was that I had been checking a survey 24ƒ?x36ƒ? amended plat with a plot scale of 1ƒ?=200ƒ??. There were several signature lines. The Surveyorƒ??s line was 4ƒ? long- full width over a certification (2 lines of text)

mine - the reviewer was 3.5ƒ? long -full width over a certification -2 lines if text that included the date. The sanitarian was 3.5ƒ? long over no certification, planner was 3.5ƒ? long over no certification, co treasurer was 3ƒ? long beside a certification and the signature block for the county commissioners was 1 line 2.75ƒ? long for 2 commissioners to sign above a line 1ƒ? long for the 3rd commissioner to sign beside a line 1.5ƒ? long for the co. Clerk to sign.?ÿ
basically the title block area for the commissioners and clerk to sign was smaller t than the area for the PLS to sign.

this thing had plenty of white space/ no reason to make anything to small-?ÿ

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before anyone chalks this up to and inexperienced CADD tech, the cadd techƒ??s initials indicate otherwise.

What gets my dander up is where there are spaces for two or more signatures, and one or more of the signatories encroaches over the space of another. It says a lot about the person.

@rankin_file

Why have any line at all? If I was starting from scratch, I wouldn't have any line at all. I know where to sign, and so does everyone else...I know I have seen plats without lines, just signatures and dates under the statements or declarations...