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Beautiful in cursive

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

The word Beautiful 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 (ℬℯ𝒶𝓊𝓉𝒾𝒻𝓊𝓁) drawn by STIX Two Math. The typefaces make pictures; the last row is text. — Beautifulfive 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.

Beautiful in cursive to copy and paste

The characters behind Beautiful

The Unicode characters that spell Beautiful in cursive
Letter	Cursive	Code point and name	Bold cursive	Code point
B	ℬ	`U+212C` SCRIPT CAPITAL B	𝓑	`U+1D4D1`
e	ℯ	`U+212F` SCRIPT SMALL E	𝓮	`U+1D4EE`
a	𝒶	`U+1D4B6` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL A	𝓪	`U+1D4EA`
u	𝓊	`U+1D4CA` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL U	𝓾	`U+1D4FE`
t	𝓉	`U+1D4C9` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL T	𝓽	`U+1D4FD`
i	𝒾	`U+1D4BE` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL I	𝓲	`U+1D4F2`
f	𝒻	`U+1D4BB` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL F	𝓯	`U+1D4EF`
l	𝓁	`U+1D4C1` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL L	𝓵	`U+1D4F5`

In light cursive, 2 of the 9 letters of Beautiful come from Letterlike Symbols rather than the maths alphabet: ℬ (U+212C SCRIPT CAPITAL B, also listed as “Bernoulli function”) and ℯ (U+212F SCRIPT SMALL E, also listed as “error” and “natural exponent”).

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

How much room Beautiful takes as text

Characters, UTF-16 units and SMS size of Beautiful in each style
As	Text	Characters	UTF-16 units	As a text message
Plain text	Beautiful	9	9	9 of 160, GSM alphabet
Cursive script	ℬℯ𝒶𝓊𝓉𝒾𝒻𝓊𝓁	9	16	16 of 70, 16-bit
Bold cursive	𝓑𝓮𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓲𝓯𝓾𝓵	9	18	18 of 70, 16-bit
Fancy cursive	✦ 𝓑𝓮𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓲𝓯𝓾𝓵 ✦	13	22	22 of 70, 16-bit
Cursive with hearts	♡𝓑𝓮𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓲𝓯𝓾𝓵♡	11	20	20 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.