Cursive font generator

Cursive is joined-up writing: each small letter runs into the next on a connecting stroke, and the capitals carry the loops. The fonts here are scripts drawn for print, from a quick everyday hand to formal penmanship, not the school model children learn to write.

Cards, invitations, a name on a mug or a sign, labels and logos: a line or two, set large. Body text is the wrong place for it, because a page of joined letters is slow to read.

Dancing Script is the casual one, and the only one of the four with weights, from regular to bold. Great Vibes is formal and the narrowest, with big looped capitals; Pacifico is the heaviest and widest, a fat retro brush; Sacramento is a thin monoline whose small letters are the shortest of the four, so set it larger than the rest.

Canva keeps no public list of its fonts; type the font’s name into its font menu first. If it is not there, download the PNG at 3× for words you will set large: thin script joins are the first thing to blur when an image is stretched.

The SVG comes welded, so the whole word cuts in one piece. Typed into Design Space itself, script letters overlap and cut apart unless you select the line and Weld it. The hairlines of Great Vibes and Sacramento tear when small vinyl is weeded: cut them big, or choose Pacifico or Dancing Script in bold.

Leave character spacing at Normal, since Expanded pulls joined letters apart, and never set a script in capitals only. Pacifico and Great Vibes hold alternate letters that Word switches on under Font, Advanced, Stylistic sets.

The steps for any style, the PNG and the SVG into each app, what the licences allow and what happens to your words, are on the font generator.