Words

Hello in cursive

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

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

Hello in cursive to copy and paste

The characters behind Hello

The Unicode characters that spell Hello in cursive
Letter	Cursive	Code point and name	Bold cursive	Code point
H	ℋ	`U+210B` SCRIPT CAPITAL H	𝓗	`U+1D4D7`
e	ℯ	`U+212F` SCRIPT SMALL E	𝓮	`U+1D4EE`
l	𝓁	`U+1D4C1` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL L	𝓵	`U+1D4F5`
o	ℴ	`U+2134` SCRIPT SMALL O	𝓸	`U+1D4F8`

In light cursive, 3 of the 5 letters of Hello come from Letterlike Symbols rather than the maths alphabet: ℋ (U+210B SCRIPT CAPITAL H, also listed as “Hamiltonian operator”), ℯ (U+212F SCRIPT SMALL E, also listed as “error” and “natural exponent”) and ℴ (U+2134 SCRIPT SMALL O, also listed as “order, of inferior order to”).

Bold cursive avoids all of those: its 52 letters sit in one range, U+1D4D0 to U+1D503, so 𝓗𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓸 is drawn from a single source.

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

How much room Hello takes as text

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