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Draw or type your signature and save it as a see-through PNG, trimmed to the ink, ready to paste into a document or an email. Nothing is uploaded.

Ink and size

Line thickness3 px
Padding around the ink8 px

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Your signature appears here, trimmed to the ink.

Transparent background. 2x suits email and documents; 4x suits print. SVG keeps drawn strokes sharp at any size.

Put this signature on a PDF →

Making an e-mail signature? Build the typed contact block and add a handwritten signature picture beside it.

Your signature stays on this device. It is drawn, cleaned and saved inside this page. There is no upload and no account, and nothing is kept after you close the tab, so save the file before you leave.

How to make a signature image

  1. Make it. Sign on the pad with a finger, stylus or mouse; or tap Type and write your name; or tap Photo and pick a picture of your signature on paper.
  2. Fix mistakes. Undo removes the last stroke, Clear starts again.
  3. Set the look. Pick black, blue or any ink colour, the line thickness and how much empty space to keep around the ink.
  4. Download. PNG 2x for email and documents, PNG 4x for print, SVG for a drawn signature you want to scale freely.
  5. Paste it in. Insert the file as a picture (steps for the common apps are below), or place it on a PDF with Sign PDF.

Which file to download

The pad measures your drawing in screen pixels. A signature drawn 300 pixels wide comes out about 600 pixels wide at 2x and 1,200 at 4x, plus the padding (multiplied by the same factor). Shown 4 cm wide on a printed page, the 2x file is about 380 pixels per inch, already sharp on paper; 4x leaves room to print it larger. For an email signature 2x is plenty and keeps the file small. The SVG holds one path per stroke you drew, so it stays crisp at any size and can be recoloured in a vector editor; it is only made for drawn signatures. Every download is trimmed to the ink itself, measured pixel by pixel, so there is no stray white box to crop afterwards.

Putting it into a document or an email

Microsoft Word (desktop)

  1. Select Insert > Pictures and choose signature-2x.png. Microsoft's own steps begin with scanning a signature on paper and cropping it with Picture Format > Crop; the PNG from here is already trimmed, so you can skip both.
  2. To reuse it with your name and title: type the text under the picture, select the picture and the text, then Insert > Quick Parts > Save Selection to Quick Part Gallery, give it a name, set Gallery to AutoText and select OK.
  3. Next time: Insert > Quick Parts > AutoText and pick that name.

Google Docs (computer)

  1. Open the document and click Insert > Image > Upload from computer, then choose the PNG.
  2. Click the image. In the options that appear below it choose In front of text to lay it over a signature line, or Wrap text.
  3. Those layout options only work in documents set to Pages format, not Pageless.

Gmail (computer)

  1. Open Gmail, click Settings > See all settings.
  2. In the Signature section, add your signature in the box; the formatting bar there can add an image.
  3. Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page. Google notes that an image counts toward the 10,000-character signature limit; if you get an error, use a smaller image, so pick PNG 2x rather than 4x.

Outlook

  1. Classic Outlook for Windows: open a new message, select Signature > Signatures, choose the signature to edit, select the Image button, find the PNG and select Insert.
  2. To resize it there: right-click the image, choose Picture, open the Size tab and keep Lock aspect ratio ticked. Select OK twice to save.
  3. New Outlook and Outlook on the web: signatures live under Settings > Accounts > Signatures; select Add signature, name it, build it in the editing box and select Save.

Tip that is ours, not the vendors': in an email app shown in dark mode, black ink on a transparent background can be hard to see. Blue ink stays readable on both light and dark backgrounds.

What it cannot do

  • It is a picture of your signature, not a certificate-based digital signature. There is no certificate, no audit trail and no tamper seal. Anyone who receives the file can copy or move the image, and the image does not prove who made it.
  • It does not make a signature legally valid. Whether a pasted signature image is accepted depends on the document, the other party and the law where you are; if you are asked for a certified digital signature, this is not one.
  • SVG is for drawn signatures only. Typed and photographed signatures download as PNG.
  • Photo cleanup needs dark ink on light paper. Strong shadows, lined or coloured paper and very faint pencil do not separate cleanly; a blurry photo stays blurry. The ink is recoloured to the colour you pick.
  • Typed signatures cover three scripts: Latin, Devanagari and Bengali. Latin (English and most European languages) gets Dancing Script, Great Vibes and Caveat; a name typed in Devanagari (Hindi, Marathi, Nepali) gets Kalam and Tillana; a name in Bengali (Bangla, Assamese) gets Atma and Galada. The page does not transliterate: typing "Priya" gives a Latin signature, so type the name in its own script (with a Hindi or Bangla keyboard) to get it in that script. Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Tamil, Gurmukhi, Chinese and other scripts still fall back to a plain system font. Vedic accents and the short e/o letters of Devanagari are not in Kalam or Tillana and also fall back.
  • Nothing is saved. Close or reload the tab and the signature is gone; download it first.

Questions

How do I put my signature into a document?

Download the PNG here, then insert it as a picture: in Microsoft Word with Insert > Pictures, in Google Docs with Insert > Image > Upload from computer and then In front of text to lay it over a signature line. The background is transparent, so the line and the page show through.

Can I draw my signature with my finger on a phone?

Yes. The pad takes touch, a stylus or a mouse, and the page does not scroll while you draw on it. On an iPhone, open the page in Safari, sign with your finger, tap PNG 2x, and the file is saved to Downloads in the Files app.

How do I make a cursive signature from my typed name?

Tap Type, write your name and pick one of three handwriting fonts: Dancing Script, Great Vibes or Caveat. The buttons preview your own name in each. The download is a transparent PNG of the name in that font, trimmed to the letters.

Can I make my signature in Hindi or Bangla?

Yes. Type the name in Devanagari or Bengali letters, for example with a Hindi or Bangla phone keyboard (on Android, Gboard; on iPhone, add the Hindi or Bangla keyboard in Settings). The page reads the script from the letters and offers two handwriting faces that cover it: Kalam (a pen hand) and Tillana (a brush hand) for Devanagari, Atma (rounded) and Galada (a flowing brush) for Bengali. These two font files, about 65 to 130 KB each, are fetched from this site only when you first type in that script. The browser shapes the whole name at once, so conjuncts such as क्ष, त्र and ক্ষ and the vowel signs come out joined, the way you would write them. Ink colour, padding and the transparent PNG work as for a Latin name. The page does not transliterate: Rahul stays in English letters; type राहुल or রাহুল to get it in that script.

Can I use my real handwritten signature?

Yes. Sign white paper with a dark pen, photograph it flat in good light, tap Photo and choose the picture. The paper is made transparent and the ink kept; slide Remove paper to the right if grey shadows remain, or to the left if thin lines break up.

Does this make my signature legally valid?

No. It makes a picture of your signature. It is not a certificate-based digital signature: there is no certificate, no audit trail and no tamper seal.