Melissa in Cursive – Copy and Paste in 12 Styles

Melissa, letter by letter

The name Melissa written with Unicode cursive characters, ℳℯ𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓈𝒶 above and 𝓜𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓼𝓪 below, drawn by STIX Two Math, with ℳ, ℯ marked as letters Unicode keeps in the Letterlike Symbols block. — The light line mixes two parts of Unicode: ℳ ℯ from Letterlike Symbols and the rest from the maths alphabet. The bold line is all one range. Drawn by STIX Two Math; a phone uses its own font.

The Unicode characters that spell Melissa in cursive
Letter	Cursive	Code point and name	Bold cursive	Code point
M	ℳ	`U+2133` SCRIPT CAPITAL M	𝓜	`U+1D4DC`
e	ℯ	`U+212F` SCRIPT SMALL E	𝓮	`U+1D4EE`
l	𝓁	`U+1D4C1` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL L	𝓵	`U+1D4F5`
i	𝒾	`U+1D4BE` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL I	𝓲	`U+1D4F2`
s	𝓈	`U+1D4C8` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL S	𝓼	`U+1D4FC`
a	𝒶	`U+1D4B6` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL A	𝓪	`U+1D4EA`

ℳ, the first letter of Melissa in light cursive, is not a maths letter at all: it is U+2133 SCRIPT CAPITAL M from Letterlike Symbols, which Unicode also lists as “M-matrix (physics)” and “German Mark currency symbol, before WWII”.

The ℯ in ℳℯ𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓈𝒶 is U+212F SCRIPT SMALL E, which Unicode also lists as “error” and “natural exponent” — one of the older Letterlike characters rather than a maths letter.

With 2 borrowed letters mixed into it, Melissa is a good case for bold cursive, whose 52 letters all sit in one range, U+1D4D0 to U+1D503: 𝓜𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓼𝓪.

ℓ, U+2113 SCRIPT SMALL L, which Unicode also lists as “mathematical symbol 'ell'” and “liter (traditional symbol)”, looks like the 𝓁 in ℳℯ𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓈𝒶 but is a different character; a name typed with it will not match a search for Melissa.

How much room Melissa takes

Characters, UTF-16 units and SMS size of Melissa in each style
As	Text	Characters	UTF-16 units	As a text message
Plain text	Melissa	7	7	7 of 160, GSM alphabet
Cursive script	ℳℯ𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓈𝒶	7	12	12 of 70, 16-bit
Bold cursive	𝓜𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓼𝓪	7	14	14 of 70, 16-bit
Fancy cursive	✦ 𝓜𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓼𝓪 ✦	11	18	18 of 70, 16-bit
Cursive with hearts	♡𝓜𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓼𝓪♡	9	16	16 of 70, 16-bit

Fields that count UTF-16 units see the larger number. What that leaves you in a bio, a display name or a nickname is on each platform’s page, and what the text message column means is on the texting page.

Melissa in handwriting fonts

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