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Happy New Year in cursive

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

The words Happy New Year 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 𝒩ℯ𝓌 𝒴ℯ𝒶𝓇) drawn by STIX Two Math. The typefaces make pictures; the last row is text. — Happy New Year 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. PNG and SVG are pictures 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.

Happy New Year in cursive to copy and paste

The characters behind Happy New Year

The Unicode characters that spell Happy New Year 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`
N	𝒩	`U+1D4A9` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT CAPITAL N	𝓝	`U+1D4DD`
e	ℯ	`U+212F` SCRIPT SMALL E	𝓮	`U+1D4EE`
w	𝓌	`U+1D4CC` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL W	𝔀	`U+1D500`
Y	𝒴	`U+1D4B4` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT CAPITAL Y	𝓨	`U+1D4E8`
r	𝓇	`U+1D4C7` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL R	𝓻	`U+1D4FB`

In light cursive, 3 of the 12 letters of Happy New Year come from Letterlike Symbols rather than the maths alphabet: ℋ (U+210B SCRIPT CAPITAL H, also listed as “Hamiltonian operator”) and ℯ (U+212F SCRIPT SMALL E, also listed as “error” and “natural exponent”, used twice).

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

How much room Happy New Year takes as text

Characters, UTF-16 units and SMS size of Happy New Year in each style
As	Text	Characters	UTF-16 units	As a text message
Plain text	Happy New Year	14	14	14 of 160, GSM alphabet
Cursive script	ℋ𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 𝒩ℯ𝓌 𝒴ℯ𝒶𝓇	14	23	23 of 70, 16-bit
Bold cursive	𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻	14	26	26 of 70, 16-bit
Fancy cursive	✦ 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻 ✦	18	30	30 of 70, 16-bit
Cursive with hearts	♡𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂♡ ♡𝓝𝓮𝔀♡ ♡𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻♡	20	32	32 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.