Generators

Signature Generator

Draw a signature with your mouse or finger, or type one in a handwriting font, then save it as a transparent PNG or SVG. Nothing is stored.

Sign here with a mouse, a trackpad, a finger or a stylus.

A trackpad works, but a finger or a stylus on a phone or tablet gives a far more natural line — then download it on that device.

Ink

Transparent background PNG

Both files are cropped to the ink and have no background behind them. The PNG is the one to send to somebody else; the SVG stays sharp at any size but relies on the opening machine having the font when the signature was typed rather than drawn.

This makes a picture of a signature. It is not an e-signature service, it binds nothing on its own, and nothing you draw here is saved — closing the tab is what removes it.

A signature you can paste is one of those small jobs that turns out to be unreasonably annoying. The usual routes are printing the page, signing it, photographing it and cropping the result, or handing your name and email to a service that would much rather sell you a subscription. This page is the short version: sign on the pad, press download, close the tab.

Draw your signature the way you actually sign

The pad reads pointer input, which means it treats a mouse, a trackpad, a finger and a stylus identically — whatever your device sends, the line follows it. It also means the input device matters more than anything on this page. A finger on a phone gives a far better result than a mouse on a desktop, and a stylus better again, because the muscles involved are the ones that learned your signature in the first place.

Two settings are worth touching before you start. Stroke width changes how the line reads: thin lines look precise and expose every tremor, thicker lines look confident and swallow small mistakes, and somewhere around four pixels is where most signatures stop looking hesitant. The ink swatches are the three colours pens come in; blue is worth choosing over black if you want it to be obvious that the signature was added rather than photocopied along with the rest of the document.

Undo steps back one stroke at a time, so the loop you botched at the end costs you that loop. Clear starts over completely.

Type your signature when a drawn one is not the point

Some documents just need a name in a hand that is not the body typeface — an internal memo, a placeholder in a template, a mock-up you are showing somebody. Typed mode renders what you enter in a handwriting font, at whatever size you choose, and downloads exactly the same way.

Be aware of what typed mode is not. It is a font, so it looks like a font, and anybody who has seen the same face elsewhere will recognise it. Nobody should mistake it for your hand, and it makes no attempt to imitate one.

Transparent background PNG, and why it matters

Both downloads are cropped tight to the ink and carry nothing behind it. That sounds like a detail and it is the whole difference between a signature that sits on a document and one that sits in a box on top of it. A screenshot of a signature always brings its background with it, which is why pasted signatures so often appear in a slightly-wrong shade of white against the page.

The crop matters too: the file is the size of your signature, not the size of the pad, so it drops in already roughly the right proportion instead of needing to be dragged smaller with a lot of empty space around it.

SVG signature download for anything that gets bigger

The SVG holds the same strokes as maths rather than pixels, so it stays sharp at any size and can be recoloured or edited in a vector program. Take it when the signature is going somewhere it might be enlarged. For a drawn signature the two files show the same thing; for a typed one, read the FAQ note about fonts before you send the SVG to somebody else.

What this tool is for, and what it is not

It is for producing an image of a signature to place in a document you are sending — a PDF, a letter, a form, a slide. It is not e-signing. It does not bind anything, verify anybody, or leave a record that a signature was applied. Nothing you draw is saved here, on purpose: no account, no browser storage, no copy anywhere but the file you downloaded.

Questions

How do I make a signature with a transparent background?
Draw or type it above and press Download PNG. The pad never paints a background — the ruled surface you sign on is part of the page, not part of the picture — so the file that lands in your downloads folder is ink and nothing else. Dropped onto a contract, a letterhead or a coloured slide it sits directly on whatever is underneath, with no white rectangle around it. If you have ever pasted a signature and found it sitting in a pale box, that box was a background the file was carrying.
Is a signature I draw here legally binding?
No, and nothing here should be read as saying otherwise. What this page produces is a picture of a signature. It records no identity, keeps no audit trail, proves nothing about who moved the pointer, and cannot be verified by anyone who receives it. That is fine for the ordinary case it is built for — putting your mark on a document you are sending, the same way you would if you had printed it, signed it and scanned it back in. If a counterparty needs a signature that can be checked later, they need an e-signature service with identity verification behind it, and that is a different kind of product entirely.
Why does my signature look shaky when I draw it with a mouse?
Because a mouse is a poor pen. Handwriting relies on wrist and finger movement over a few centimetres, and a mouse moves from the forearm across a whole desk, so the line comes out angular and slow. Three things help: raise the stroke width to 4 or 5 pixels, which hides small wobbles inside the line; sign faster than feels comfortable, because speed is what makes a signature look like yours; and if you can, open this page on a phone or tablet and sign with a finger or a stylus instead, then download it there. Undo removes only the last stroke, so a bad crossbar costs you the crossbar rather than the whole name.
Should I download the PNG or the SVG?
Send the PNG. It is pixels, so it looks the same everywhere and nothing about the receiving machine can change it. Take the SVG when you want to scale the signature up later without it going soft — a printed sign, a large document header — or when you want to recolour it in a vector editor. The one caveat is the typed mode: a typed SVG stores your name plus a font stack rather than letter outlines, so a machine without any of those handwriting fonts installed will draw it in something else. A drawn SVG has no such problem, because a drawn signature is already made of paths.
Is my signature saved or uploaded anywhere?
Neither. The strokes exist only in this browser tab's memory. Nothing is written to your browser's storage, nothing is attached to an account, and no part of the drawing is sent anywhere — the whole tool runs on your own device. Closing the tab or reloading the page deletes it, and that is deliberate rather than a limitation we have not got round to fixing. This tool is most useful on shared and borrowed computers, and a saved signature on one of those is the thing you would least want left behind.