I write my name in cursive, and that's it. I print or type otherwise.
I write my name in an unintelligible group of lines. I tend to print everything else.
I took mechanical drawing in college.
This was back in the paleolithic era when mechanical drawing actually involved placing pencil to paper and (gasp) hand-lettering-- instead of using Autocad® as is current practice.
As anyone else who has been there, done that, will tell you--
You are irrevocably altered by this process.
I found that I could no longer write in cursive-- and cannot do so to this day.
It took me ten years to re-learn how to write my name in cursive, and I've been told that it looks like that of a British merchant banker.
OTOH, the clerks in the checkout lines frequently comment on how nice and readable my checks are.
Except for the signature, that is.