How do I manipulate a variable widths on a stroke?

[caliber]

 

I have a stroke that I want to get thinner towards the end but the stroke settings seems too simple. This is my first project switching from illustrator so I'm wondering how can I manipulate this stroke or set custom brushes?

[NilsFinken]

Could you cheat and make the last, tapering, part separate, then join the two parts?

 

I just tried:

1. Create the line, choose general stroke thickness.

2. Go to Node tool, choose or insert a node where the taper should start.

3. "Break curve" and apply Pressure to the stroke shown with nodes.

4. Join - or adjust - the two parts of the signature.

 

[deomacius]

Additionally, you could switch to the Pixel persona and use the eraser tool to carve off the ends of that stroke. A mask will be created that hides the portions of the stroke that you erase.

[Alfred]

Don't you just need a brush with a reasonable amount of size variance and with 'Pressure' as the controller? The standard brush 'Solid Brush with Pressure' (in the Assorted category) seemed to work quite well once I constructed a suitable pressure profile.