Words

Joy in cursive

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

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

Joy in cursive to copy and paste

The characters behind Joy

The Unicode characters that spell Joy in cursive
Letter	Cursive	Code point and name	Bold cursive	Code point
J	𝒥	`U+1D4A5` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT CAPITAL J	𝓙	`U+1D4D9`
o	ℴ	`U+2134` SCRIPT SMALL O	𝓸	`U+1D4F8`
y	𝓎	`U+1D4CE` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL Y	𝔂	`U+1D502`

In light cursive, one of the 3 letters of Joy comes from Letterlike Symbols rather than the maths alphabet: ℴ (U+2134 SCRIPT SMALL O, also listed as “order, of inferior order to”).

How much room Joy takes as text

Characters, UTF-16 units and SMS size of Joy in each style
As	Text	Characters	UTF-16 units	As a text message
Plain text	Joy	3	3	3 of 160, GSM alphabet
Cursive script	𝒥ℴ𝓎	3	5	5 of 70, 16-bit
Bold cursive	𝓙𝓸𝔂	3	6	6 of 70, 16-bit
Fancy cursive	✦ 𝓙𝓸𝔂 ✦	7	10	10 of 70, 16-bit
Cursive with hearts	♡𝓙𝓸𝔂♡	5	8	8 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.