Processed entirely on your device — nothing is uploaded
How to use the signature maker
- 1Type your name — the signature preview updates with every keystroke.
- 2Choose a style: flowing cursive, a quick neat hand, or the rounded style (which also writes Devanagari).
- 3Adjust ink, size and slant until it looks like a hand you would own.
- 4Download the transparent PNG and place it on documents, email signatures or the Sign PDF tool.
What a typed signature is good for
A signature image has three everyday uses: the sign-here field of PDFs and forms, the footer of professional email, and the countless portals that ask for a signature upload next to a photo. For all three, what matters is a clean, legible mark on a transparent background — which is exactly what this generates, at print resolution, from nothing but your typed name.
Transparency is the detail that separates a usable signature from an amateur one. A signature saved with a white box around it stamps that box onto every document; a transparent PNG sits on the signature line as if written there. The checkerboard in the preview shows the transparency — the downloaded file carries it.
The slant control earns its place: real signatures lean. A few degrees of forward slant reads as a natural hand; the upright default of most generators is what makes their output look typed.
Making it look like yours
Try your name in all three styles before settling — the flowing cursive suits full names, the quick pen suits initials-plus-surname, and short names generally carry more slant convincingly than long ones. Blue ink photographs as more obviously 'signed' on printed pages; black matches formal documents and email footers.
Consider generating two versions: a full-name signature for documents and a compact initials version for initialling pages. Both take seconds, and consistent use of the pair looks considerably more deliberate than one signature stretched across both jobs.
For exam and government portals that cap signature uploads at 10–20 KB, generate here, then run the PNG through the compress-to-size pages linked below — the two tools were built to be used together.
The honest part: what this is not
A typed-font signature is a representation of consent, not a biometric. For everyday paperwork — internal forms, invoices, acknowledgements, email — it is exactly what everyone else is using, including the 'draw your signature' widgets in commercial e-sign products, whose typed option produces precisely this kind of image.
Where the law requires more — property registration, wills, notarised documents, bank mandates — the required mark is the one your hand makes, sometimes before a witness. No generated image satisfies those, and this page will not pretend otherwise.
Digital signatures in the cryptographic sense (DSC tokens, Aadhaar eSign) are a third, different thing: mathematical proof of signing, not a picture at all. An image signature and a digital signature can coexist on the same PDF — the image for humans, the certificate for verification.
Frequently asked questions
Is a generated signature legally valid?
For ordinary business documents, an image signature applied with intent to sign is widely accepted — it is what commercial e-sign tools produce in their 'type' mode. Property deeds, wills and notarised documents need a wet-ink signature; cryptographic digital signatures (DSC/eSign) are a separate mechanism again.
Why transparent PNG and not JPG?
JPG cannot store transparency — it would weld a white rectangle around your signature that prints on every document. The PNG here keeps the background clear so the mark sits directly on the page.
Can it write signatures in Hindi?
Yes — the rounded style includes full Devanagari coverage, so a name typed in Hindi or Marathi renders correctly. The other two styles are Latin-script only.
A portal wants my signature under 20 KB. What do I do?
Download the PNG here, then use the compress-image-to-20kb page (linked below) — it converts and shrinks to the exact cap, locally, like this tool.
Is my name uploaded anywhere?
No — the rendering is your browser drawing on a canvas with fonts served from this site. Nothing you type is transmitted.