Words

Dream in cursive

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

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

Dream in cursive to copy and paste

The characters behind Dream

The Unicode characters that spell Dream in cursive
Letter	Cursive	Code point and name	Bold cursive	Code point
D	𝒟	`U+1D49F` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT CAPITAL D	𝓓	`U+1D4D3`
r	𝓇	`U+1D4C7` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL R	𝓻	`U+1D4FB`
e	ℯ	`U+212F` SCRIPT SMALL E	𝓮	`U+1D4EE`
a	𝒶	`U+1D4B6` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL A	𝓪	`U+1D4EA`
m	𝓂	`U+1D4C2` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL M	𝓶	`U+1D4F6`

In light cursive, one of the 5 letters of Dream comes from Letterlike Symbols rather than the maths alphabet: ℯ (U+212F SCRIPT SMALL E, also listed as “error” and “natural exponent”).

℮, U+212E ESTIMATED SYMBOL, looks like the ℯ in 𝒟𝓇ℯ𝒶𝓂 but is a different character; text typed with it will not match a search for Dream.

How much room Dream takes as text

Characters, UTF-16 units and SMS size of Dream in each style
As	Text	Characters	UTF-16 units	As a text message
Plain text	Dream	5	5	5 of 160, GSM alphabet
Cursive script	𝒟𝓇ℯ𝒶𝓂	5	9	9 of 70, 16-bit
Bold cursive	𝓓𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓶	5	10	10 of 70, 16-bit
Fancy cursive	✦ 𝓓𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓶 ✦	9	14	14 of 70, 16-bit
Cursive with hearts	♡𝓓𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓶♡	7	12	12 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.