Signature Generator – Make Your Signature

Free signature generator — type your name in a handwriting font or draw it yourself, then save it as a transparent PNG.

Type or Draw
Transparent PNG
Nothing Leaves Your Device
Make Your Signature
Sign above with your mouse, trackpad or finger
Preview
Exactly what downloads
Sign on the left and the finished, cropped signature appears here
3 px
Download
Cropped to the signature, at triple resolution

No sign-up and no watermark; your name and your signature are drawn right here and never sent anywhere.

How to use the signature generator

The page opens on Draw, so you can sign straight away and watch the finished signature build up on the right, cropped exactly as it will download. Switch to Type instead and your name appears in every handwriting font at once, so you are choosing between real options rather than clicking through them one at a time. A signature generator tool should show you the choices, not hide them behind a preview button, and a signature generator for name input has no reason to ask for anything else about you. Pick the one that looks like you, set the size and the ink, and download it. That is the whole of a signature maker — there is nothing to sign up for and nothing to pay. It is a signature generator online free of accounts, watermarks and daily limits, which is unusual enough in this corner of the web to be worth saying out loud.

  • Draw it. Sign in the box with a mouse, a trackpad or a finger. Undo and redo are there for the strokes that come out wrong.
  • Or type it. Switch to Type, enter your name and compare fourteen script faces side by side. This is the create signature for my name route most people want, and it works the same whether you give it a full signature generator name or only your initials.
  • Set the ink. Black, blue ink, navy, green or red, plus size, pen thickness and an optional underline.
  • Download it. A transparent background PNG by default, or PNG on white, or JPG. A drawn signature also exports as SVG.

Handwriting, cursive and calligraphy — which to pick

Every face here is a real signature generator handwriting or script font, not an italic serif pretending to be one. They are not all the same kind of script either, and the right one depends on where the signature is going:

StyleReads asGood for
Flowing, Elegant, FineFormal calligraphyCertificates, invitations, letterheads
Classic, Formal, SlimA fountain-pen scriptInvoices, letters, contracts
Casual, Relaxed, ModernA confident everyday handEmail footers, design mock-ups
Handwritten, Quick Note, Light HandReal handwritingAnything that should not look typeset

A stylish flourish looks impressive and is harder to reproduce by hand later; a plainer hand is easier to match if you will also be signing on paper. If you want only your initials, type those instead of the full name — the fonts handle two or three letters just as well.

Why the background matters

The preview sits on a chequerboard because that is the only way to see that the background really is empty. A signature saved on a white rectangle looks fine on a white page and obvious on anything else — a coloured letterhead, a scanned form, a slide. The transparent background PNG has no rectangle at all, so it sits on whatever is underneath it. The white background PNG and the JPG exist for the handful of systems that refuse transparency, which is usually old form software.

Every download is trimmed to the signature itself with a small margin, so the signature generator image you get is the signature and nothing else, rather than a mostly empty box you have to crop by hand. Typed signatures are rendered at triple resolution, which keeps them sharp when the page is printed.

Is this an electronic signature?

Worth being straight about, because electronic signature and e signature usually mean something else. This page makes a picture of a signature. A legally binding electronic signature is a service: it records who signed, when, from what address, ties that to an identity and keeps an audit trail that can be produced if the agreement is ever disputed. That is what DocuSign and its rivals sell, and an image file has none of it.

For an invoice, a covering letter, a form, an email footer or a design mock-up, an image is exactly what you need and nobody expects more. For a contract that matters, use a proper e-signing service. Pasting a picture into a PDF is not the same thing, and it is better to know that here than to find out later.

What this tool does not do

It does not turn a photo of a signature into a clean transparent image — that is background removal, and there is a separate tool for it. It does not build an email signature block with your job title and logo; that is a layout job, not a signature. And typed signatures do not export as SVG, for a reason worth knowing: an SVG that only names a font renders in that font on your machine and as plain Times on everyone else's. Drawn signatures do export as SVG, because those strokes really are vector paths.

Frequently Asked Questions

The page opens on Draw, so you can sign straight away with a mouse, a trackpad or a finger. If you would rather have it typed, switch to Type and your name appears in every handwriting font at once, so you can compare them side by side. Click the one you like, set the size and the ink colour, and download it.
Yes, and that is the default download. A transparent PNG sits on top of a document, a letterhead or a contract without a white box around it. There is also a white background PNG and a JPG for the places that will not accept transparency.
No. This makes a picture of a signature. A legally binding electronic signature is a different thing: it records who signed, when, from where, and keeps an audit trail that can be produced later, which is what DocuSign and its rivals sell. An image has none of that. It is fine for an invoice, a letter, a form or a design mock-up, and it is not a substitute for a proper e-signing service on a contract that matters.
Yes, and that is what the page opens on. Sign in the box with a mouse, a trackpad or a finger on a phone. Undo and redo are there for the strokes that go wrong, and the panel on the right shows the finished signature cropped exactly as it will download. A drawn signature can also be saved as SVG, because the strokes really are vector paths.
Because it would be a broken file. An SVG that merely names a font shows in that font only on a machine that already has it, and renders as plain Times everywhere else. Turning the letters into outlines needs the font file itself parsed, which this page does not do. Drawn signatures are exported as SVG because those strokes are genuinely paths. Typed ones download as PNG at triple resolution instead, which stays sharp when printed.
Yes. Black, blue, navy, green and red. Blue is the usual choice when a signature has to look like wet ink rather than a photocopy, which is why forms often ask for it.
Yes. The preview is a wide box with the signature floating in the middle, but the file is trimmed to the signature itself with a small margin. Without that you would be pasting a mostly empty rectangle into your document and cropping it by hand.
No. The fonts render in this page, the drawing happens in this page, and the file you download is built in this page. Nothing is sent to a server, which matters more here than on most tools because a signature is exactly the sort of thing you should not be handing to a stranger.