Words

Hope in cursive

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

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

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The characters behind Hope

The Unicode characters that spell Hope in cursive
Letter	Cursive	Code point and name	Bold cursive	Code point
H	ℋ	`U+210B` SCRIPT CAPITAL H	𝓗	`U+1D4D7`
o	ℴ	`U+2134` SCRIPT SMALL O	𝓸	`U+1D4F8`
p	𝓅	`U+1D4C5` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL P	𝓹	`U+1D4F9`
e	ℯ	`U+212F` SCRIPT SMALL E	𝓮	`U+1D4EE`

In light cursive, 3 of the 4 letters of Hope come from Letterlike Symbols rather than the maths alphabet: ℋ (U+210B SCRIPT CAPITAL H, also listed as “Hamiltonian operator”), ℴ (U+2134 SCRIPT SMALL O, also listed as “order, of inferior order to”) and ℯ (U+212F SCRIPT SMALL E, also listed as “error” and “natural exponent”).

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

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

How much room Hope takes as text

Characters, UTF-16 units and SMS size of Hope in each style
As	Text	Characters	UTF-16 units	As a text message
Plain text	Hope	4	4	4 of 160, GSM alphabet
Cursive script	ℋℴ𝓅ℯ	4	5	5 of 70, 16-bit
Bold cursive	𝓗𝓸𝓹𝓮	4	8	8 of 70, 16-bit
Fancy cursive	✦ 𝓗𝓸𝓹𝓮 ✦	8	12	12 of 70, 16-bit
Cursive with hearts	♡𝓗𝓸𝓹𝓮♡	6	10	10 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.