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Happy Birthday in cursive

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

The words Happy Birthday set in Great Vibes, Allura, Parisienne and Mrs Saint Delafield, the four typefaces the handwriting generator draws with, above the same words written with Unicode cursive characters (ℋ𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 ℬ𝒾𝓇𝓉𝒽𝒹𝒶𝓎) drawn by STIX Two Math. The typefaces make pictures; the last row is text. — Happy Birthdayfive 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.

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The characters behind Happy Birthday

The Unicode characters that spell Happy Birthday in cursive
Letter	Cursive	Code point and name	Bold cursive	Code point
H	ℋ	`U+210B` SCRIPT CAPITAL H	𝓗	`U+1D4D7`
a	𝒶	`U+1D4B6` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL A	𝓪	`U+1D4EA`
p	𝓅	`U+1D4C5` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL P	𝓹	`U+1D4F9`
y	𝓎	`U+1D4CE` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL Y	𝔂	`U+1D502`
B	ℬ	`U+212C` SCRIPT CAPITAL B	𝓑	`U+1D4D1`
i	𝒾	`U+1D4BE` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL I	𝓲	`U+1D4F2`
r	𝓇	`U+1D4C7` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL R	𝓻	`U+1D4FB`
t	𝓉	`U+1D4C9` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL T	𝓽	`U+1D4FD`
h	𝒽	`U+1D4BD` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL H	𝓱	`U+1D4F1`
d	𝒹	`U+1D4B9` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL D	𝓭	`U+1D4ED`

In light cursive, 2 of the 13 letters of Happy Birthday come from Letterlike Symbols rather than the maths alphabet: ℋ (U+210B SCRIPT CAPITAL H, also listed as “Hamiltonian operator”) and ℬ (U+212C SCRIPT CAPITAL B, also listed as “Bernoulli function”).

℘, U+2118 SCRIPT CAPITAL P, looks like the 𝓅 in ℋ𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 ℬ𝒾𝓇𝓉𝒽𝒹𝒶𝓎 but is a different character; text typed with it will not match a search for Happy Birthday.

How much room Happy Birthday takes as text

Characters, UTF-16 units and SMS size of Happy Birthday in each style
As	Text	Characters	UTF-16 units	As a text message
Plain text	Happy Birthday	14	14	14 of 160, GSM alphabet
Cursive script	ℋ𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 ℬ𝒾𝓇𝓉𝒽𝒹𝒶𝓎	14	25	25 of 70, 16-bit
Bold cursive	𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓑𝓲𝓻𝓽𝓱𝓭𝓪𝔂	14	27	27 of 70, 16-bit
Fancy cursive	✦ 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓑𝓲𝓻𝓽𝓱𝓭𝓪𝔂 ✦	18	31	31 of 70, 16-bit
Cursive with hearts	♡𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂♡ ♡𝓑𝓲𝓻𝓽𝓱𝓭𝓪𝔂♡	18	31	31 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.