There's only a few reasons to use a maker's mark. Reputation or vanity are the only ones that come to mind right now. Reputation is all about future business, the day after I retired I realized that the Good Reputation that I had bled for, worked for and spent tens of thousands of dollars on was now worthless. (Reputation is also about blame, but that's probably not what you're after.)
So if it's reputation, put something an old man can read on the blade. If it's just vanity, well, do what you want. If your knives are any good and they last, you'll be baffling and annoying people who haven't even been born yet. I'll admit there's a certain amount of attraction to that.