Words

Love in cursive

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

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

Love in cursive to copy and paste

The characters behind Love

The Unicode characters that spell Love in cursive
Letter	Cursive	Code point and name	Bold cursive	Code point
L	ℒ	`U+2112` SCRIPT CAPITAL L	𝓛	`U+1D4DB`
o	ℴ	`U+2134` SCRIPT SMALL O	𝓸	`U+1D4F8`
v	𝓋	`U+1D4CB` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL V	𝓿	`U+1D4FF`
e	ℯ	`U+212F` SCRIPT SMALL E	𝓮	`U+1D4EE`

In light cursive, 3 of the 4 letters of Love come from Letterlike Symbols rather than the maths alphabet: ℒ (U+2112 SCRIPT CAPITAL L, also listed as “Laplace transform”), 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 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 is drawn from a single source.

℮, U+212E ESTIMATED SYMBOL, looks like the ℯ in ℒℴ𝓋ℯ but is a different character; text typed with it will not match a search for Love.

How much room Love takes as text

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