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Always in cursive

As a picture in four handwriting fonts, free to download, or as 𝒜𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 and 𝓐𝓵𝔀𝓪𝔂𝓼 to paste anywhere text goes.

The word Always set in Great Vibes, Allura, Parisienne and Mrs Saint Delafield, the four typefaces the handwriting generator draws with, above the same word written with Unicode cursive characters (𝒜𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈) drawn by STIX Two Math. The typefaces make pictures; the last row is text. — Always five ways. The top four are typefaces, and what the downloads below save; the last is Unicode cursive, text you can copy, drawn here by STIX Two Math and on a phone by that phone’s own font.

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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.

Always in cursive to copy and paste

The characters behind Always

The Unicode characters that spell Always in cursive
Letter	Cursive	Code point and name	Bold cursive	Code point
A	𝒜	`U+1D49C` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT CAPITAL A	𝓐	`U+1D4D0`
l	𝓁	`U+1D4C1` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL L	𝓵	`U+1D4F5`
w	𝓌	`U+1D4CC` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL W	𝔀	`U+1D500`
a	𝒶	`U+1D4B6` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL A	𝓪	`U+1D4EA`
y	𝓎	`U+1D4CE` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL Y	𝔂	`U+1D502`
s	𝓈	`U+1D4C8` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL S	𝓼	`U+1D4FC`

Every letter of Always in light cursive comes from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, U+1D49C onwards, so none of its 6 letters is one of the eleven that Unicode borrows from Letterlike Symbols.

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

How much room Always takes as text

Characters, UTF-16 units and SMS size of Always in each style
As	Text	Characters	UTF-16 units	As a text message
Plain text	Always	6	6	6 of 160, GSM alphabet
Cursive script	𝒜𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈	6	12	12 of 70, 16-bit
Bold cursive	𝓐𝓵𝔀𝓪𝔂𝓼	6	12	12 of 70, 16-bit
Fancy cursive	✦ 𝓐𝓵𝔀𝓪𝔂𝓼 ✦	10	16	16 of 70, 16-bit
Cursive with hearts	♡𝓐𝓵𝔀𝓪𝔂𝓼♡	8	14	14 of 70, 16-bit

Sending it by text? What cursive does to an SMS explains the last column, and the box test checks whether a phone can draw it.