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Merry Christmas in cursive

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

The words Merry Christmas 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 (ℳℯ𝓇𝓇𝓎 𝒞𝒽𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓂𝒶𝓈) drawn by STIX Two Math. The typefaces make pictures; the last row is text. — Merry Christmas 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 Merry Christmas

The Unicode characters that spell Merry Christmas in cursive
Letter	Cursive	Code point and name	Bold cursive	Code point
M	ℳ	`U+2133` SCRIPT CAPITAL M	𝓜	`U+1D4DC`
e	ℯ	`U+212F` SCRIPT SMALL E	𝓮	`U+1D4EE`
r	𝓇	`U+1D4C7` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL R	𝓻	`U+1D4FB`
y	𝓎	`U+1D4CE` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL Y	𝔂	`U+1D502`
C	𝒞	`U+1D49E` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT CAPITAL C	𝓒	`U+1D4D2`
h	𝒽	`U+1D4BD` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL H	𝓱	`U+1D4F1`
i	𝒾	`U+1D4BE` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL I	𝓲	`U+1D4F2`
s	𝓈	`U+1D4C8` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL S	𝓼	`U+1D4FC`
t	𝓉	`U+1D4C9` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL T	𝓽	`U+1D4FD`
m	𝓂	`U+1D4C2` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL M	𝓶	`U+1D4F6`
a	𝒶	`U+1D4B6` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL A	𝓪	`U+1D4EA`

In light cursive, 2 of the 14 letters of Merry Christmas come from Letterlike Symbols rather than the maths alphabet: ℳ (U+2133 SCRIPT CAPITAL M, also listed as “M-matrix (physics)” and “German Mark currency symbol, before WWII”) and ℯ (U+212F SCRIPT SMALL E, also listed as “error” and “natural exponent”).

ℏ, U+210F PLANCK CONSTANT OVER TWO PI, which Unicode also lists as “reduced Planck constant, Dirac constant”, looks like the 𝒽 in ℳℯ𝓇𝓇𝓎 𝒞𝒽𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓂𝒶𝓈 but is a different character; text typed with it will not match a search for Merry Christmas.

How much room Merry Christmas takes as text

Characters, UTF-16 units and SMS size of Merry Christmas in each style
As	Text	Characters	UTF-16 units	As a text message
Plain text	Merry Christmas	15	15	15 of 160, GSM alphabet
Cursive script	ℳℯ𝓇𝓇𝓎 𝒞𝒽𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓂𝒶𝓈	15	27	27 of 70, 16-bit
Bold cursive	𝓜𝓮𝓻𝓻𝔂 𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓶𝓪𝓼	15	29	29 of 70, 16-bit
Fancy cursive	✦ 𝓜𝓮𝓻𝓻𝔂 𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓶𝓪𝓼 ✦	19	33	33 of 70, 16-bit
Cursive with hearts	♡𝓜𝓮𝓻𝓻𝔂♡ ♡𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓶𝓪𝓼♡	19	33	33 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.