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Antibabelic • today at 2:11 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Famous signatures or just signatures of the famous? Because I'm surprised there's no Lucas Cranach the Elder dragon signature for example.

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elliotbnvl • today at 3:08 PM

Ok, got Cranach's in (plus some more "famous" signatures, about 10 more). Cranach's might be my personal favorite signature of the lot. Dragon imagery, minimalism, cool backstory.

There were no SVGs of it available online so I had to trace a PNG but Claude handled that like a champ with a combination of imagemagick and potrace:

  magick cranach-autograph.png -colorspace Gray -threshold 70% cranach.pbm
  potrace cranach.pbm -s -o cranach.svg --tight --alphamax 1.0 --opttolerance 0.5
elliotbnvl • today at 2:13 PM

The latter, but now it’s going to be the former because you just nerdsniped me with the precision of a Navy SEAL.