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No.282 · Type & Names

Flourish Name

A name in italic serif that signs itself: a calligraphic swash draws under it with a thick-thin stroke, then the ink dot lands.

The prompt

Written for the variant you picked above: Ivory

Set a name in Instrument Serif italic in the ink colour, clamp(3–6rem), which fades and un-blurs in when scrolled into view. Beneath it draw a calligraphic swash as an SVG cubic path with pathLength=1: one thick stroke (3.2px) and one hairline copy (0.8px, offset 2px, 70% opacity), both animated with stroke-dashoffset 1→0 over 1.7s on an ease-in-out curve so they read as a thick-and-thin pen stroke. When the stroke completes, an ink dot at its end pops from scale 0 with overshoot. Clicking replays the signature. Selected variant — Ivory: ink="#f4efe6" (ivory) on #0c0b0a; name "Hamza".

Notes

Interaction
Signs itself when scrolled into view (IntersectionObserver); click or Enter replays.
Motion
stroke-dashoffset draw (1.7s) on two paths, staggered; dot pop; text fade/blur reveal.
Accessibility
The whole signature is a button labelled with the name; reduced motion shows the finished signature statically.
Responsive
The name uses clamp() and the swash SVG scales to width.

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