Is there a stylus that can write on my Macbook trackpad?

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MacBook Air 13" early 2015 in this case. For a real estate transaction I know I'll have to sign a bazillion documents, and while I can paste a signature in Preview, I'd rather do an actual signature for each document to avoid problems.

I presume the touchpad is capacitive? Or maybe not? If I get a capacitive stylus (is there such a thing?) will that work? I could find a lot of information but not specific to my particular trackpad, as my understanding is they are not all the same.

No, I don't really want to add on a USB sketch tablet etc. Any information about that is appreciated just in case, but this is a low-use-case scenario I don't want to spend much money on.
 

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Apparently, there are stylus pens that do work on trackpads. I haven't done a search for one, but am betting that Amazon probably has what you need.

Here's an interesting article on using a stylus pen on your trackpad:

 

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