Cursive handwriting generator
Your text in four real script typefaces, side by side. Pick the one that looks like the handwriting you had in mind and save it as a PNG. For cursive you can paste as text, such as 𝒴ℴ𝓊𝓇 𝒩𝒶𝓂ℯ, use the cursive font generator instead.
Drawn with Great Vibes by Robert E. Leuschke and others, an open-licence typeface. The PNG is a picture of the text: it can go on a photo, a card or a document, but it cannot be pasted as text, searched or read aloud.
A font, not characters
Everything else on this site makes Unicode characters: letters that are cursive in themselves and survive being pasted into a bio. This page does the other thing. It sets your ordinary letters in a script typeface — a font file that decides how each letter is drawn and how it joins the next — and saves the result as a picture. That is why it looks more like handwriting, with connected strokes and varied capitals, and also why the result cannot be pasted as text.
Which one to use
| Handwriting image (this page) | Unicode cursive text | |
|---|---|---|
| Paste into a bio or a message | No | Yes |
| Looks like connected handwriting | Yes | Partly: letters do not join |
| Same look on every device | Yes, it is a picture | No, each device uses its own font |
| Searchable, editable, read aloud | No | Partly: screen readers spell it out |
| On a photo, card or slide | Yes, with a transparent background | Only where text is allowed |
The image is the right choice when the look matters more than the text: a name on a card or an invitation, a heading on a slide, a line over a photo. When the words have to travel as words — a bio, a display name, a caption — use Unicode cursive. And for a whole document you can edit, install one of these typefaces and type in it; the Word page explains how that compares with pasted characters.
A signature line
Type your name, pick Mrs Saint Delafield — the fastest and most slanted of the four — and choose the transparent background. The PNG can then sit on a line in an email footer or a letter template without a white box around it. For contracts and forms, use the signing feature of whatever tool the sender gave you; a picture of a name is a picture, whatever font it is in.
The four typefaces
- Great Vibes, by Robert E. Leuschke and others. Formal, connected, with long entry strokes.
- Allura, by Robert E. Leuschke. Light and upright-leaning, like a careful pen.
- Parisienne, by Astigmatic (AOETI). Rounded and compact, easy to read at small sizes.
- Mrs Saint Delafield, by Alejandro Paul. Fast and slanted, closest to a signature.
All four are released under the SIL Open Font License and served from this site, so drawing your text does not contact anyone else. Their licence notices are here. If you would rather see your text in a different style altogether, the text-to-image tool saves any of the twelve Unicode cursive styles as a PNG.
Frequently asked questions
Can I paste this handwriting into Instagram or a text message?
No. What this page makes is a picture of your text drawn by a font, and bios and messages take text, not fonts. For something you can paste, use the cursive font generator, which turns your letters into Unicode cursive characters; they look less like real handwriting but work anywhere text does.
Which of the four looks most like real handwriting?
Mrs Saint Delafield is the fastest and most slanted, the closest to a signature. Great Vibes and Allura look like careful formal writing, and Parisienne is the roundest and easiest to read at small sizes. Type your own text and compare; the difference shows most in capitals.
Can I use the images for free, including commercially?
The four typefaces are released under the SIL Open Font License, which governs the font files, not what you make with them, so it places no restriction on your images. There is no watermark and nothing to sign up for; the image is drawn in your browser.
Can I get these fonts in Word or Google Docs?
Yes. All four are free on Google Fonts. Install one on your computer and it appears in Word's font menu like any other; in Google Docs, look under More fonts in the font menu, which draws on the same library. Then the text stays editable, which an image cannot.
Is a typed cursive signature a real signature?
That depends on who is asking for it, not on the font. For a contract or a form, use the signing feature of the tool the sender gives you. A PNG from this page is for places where a picture of a signature is what you want: an email footer, a letter template, a mock-up.