Nowadays many job applications are sent in digital form as PDF. We use of course LaTeX to create such. Usually you add a cover letter to your CV and credentials. If you sent this as print-out by classic mail you sign this letter (at least in Germany), but what (and how) do you do for an online application?

I would say either:

1. leave it empty
2. add your name in the usual font as normal text
3. add your real signature as scanned image
4. add your name in a special font so that it look more like a signature (but you can still see that it isn't a real one)

I'm planning to go with the last method and I'm looking for suitable fonts for it which I can use with PDFLaTeX (XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX answers are fine too, but will be taken as non-competitive). I would also be happy to get some style guidelines if I should not got with an other method (with a rationale to avoid subjective opinions).

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I already had a look at 
[Good Style of Creating a Signature all within LaTeX](https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/26019/good-style-of-creating-a-signature-all-within-latex) which is similar but still too different. I don't need or want any rule and the shown font in the accepted answer are looking too real.