Words

Dad in cursive

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

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

Dad in cursive to copy and paste

The characters behind Dad

The Unicode characters that spell Dad in cursive
Letter	Cursive	Code point and name	Bold cursive	Code point
D	𝒟	`U+1D49F` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT CAPITAL D	𝓓	`U+1D4D3`
a	𝒶	`U+1D4B6` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL A	𝓪	`U+1D4EA`
d	𝒹	`U+1D4B9` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL D	𝓭	`U+1D4ED`

Every letter of Dad in light cursive comes from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, U+1D49C onwards, so none of its 3 letters is one of the eleven that Unicode borrows from Letterlike Symbols.

How much room Dad takes as text

Characters, UTF-16 units and SMS size of Dad in each style
As	Text	Characters	UTF-16 units	As a text message
Plain text	Dad	3	3	3 of 160, GSM alphabet
Cursive script	𝒟𝒶𝒹	3	6	6 of 70, 16-bit
Bold cursive	𝓓𝓪𝓭	3	6	6 of 70, 16-bit
Fancy cursive	✦ 𝓓𝓪𝓭 ✦	7	10	10 of 70, 16-bit
Cursive with hearts	♡𝓓𝓪𝓭♡	5	8	8 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.