Turn your signature into a font — your handwriting, letter by letter.

No. HandScript captures one character per box on its template, so the font contains each letter the way you wrote it but not the connecting strokes between letters. Typing your name produces your handwriting, letter by letter, with even spacing — the look of a careful hand-printed signature, not a cursive scrawl. If you need the exact flourish you put on paper, photograph or scan the signature itself and use it as an image — for most uses you don't need a font for that. A true single-glyph signature font is a hand-built job for a type designer, not what HandScript does.

A font is not an e-signature system. In the US, a typed name can count as an electronic signature under the ESIGN Act and UETA when you intend it to sign and the other party accepts electronic signatures — the style of the letters is irrelevant, and that is true whether you type in Arial or in your own font.

What a font cannot do is prove who typed it: there is no timestamp, identity check or audit trail. For contracts, use a proper e-signature service; use your HandScript font for the human touch on letters, cards and emails. And only make fonts from handwriting that's yours or that you have the right to use — using HandScript to imitate someone else's writing or signature to deceive, or to forge a signature, is against our terms.

In practice, no. Most email apps (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo) show text only in fonts the reader already has, and mail composers can't embed a font, so a sign-off typed in your font shows as a plain fallback font on the recipient's side. The reliable way to put your handwriting in an email is to type the sign-off in any app that has your font installed, export or screenshot it as a PNG, and add that image to your email signature. Inside your own documents, cards and designs, the font works as-is.

Yes, and it's worth doing. The template asks for every character once, so write the capitals and the letters of your name the way they appear when you sign, not the way you print a shopping list — but keep every stroke inside its box, because anything that crosses the border is cut off (you'll see it on the free preview). A good approach is to make two fonts — one from your everyday print, one from a sheet written in your signing hand — since making a font is free. (The samples on this page come from an ordinary-print sheet.)

Your name typed in your own font makes a natural mark for a personal site, a bookplate or a stamp. A purchased font covers personal projects; for commercial use — a business logo, a shop, products for sale, client work — email us first. You keep the rights to your handwriting either way. Terms and license

Type them. Because every capital comes from your own hand, two or three letters in your font already look like a monogram; set them large in a design app for a card or a stamp. They stay separate glyphs — if you want them intertwined, that's artwork, not typing.

Signature-font generators type your name in someone else's pre-made script font and hand you an image (some let you draw with a mouse instead, but either way you get a picture, not a font). HandScript builds a new font file from a photo of what you actually wrote, so the letters are yours and the result is a real font — TTF, OTF and WOFF2 — you can type with in any program that lists your fonts.