Cursive GeneratorCanva has one text field that matters, the text box, and it treats pasted text as characters in whichever Canva font the box uses. Styled Unicode characters paste in and show, but they stay the symbol characters they are: Canva's font menu cannot restyle them, and a few of the rarer sets show as boxes in fonts that lack them. For anything that has to match a real cursive face, the better route is an image: type the words in the font generator here, download a transparent PNG or an SVG, and add it to the design as an element. Use the text styles below for a quick caption or a label inside a design; use the image for a heading, a name or a logo that must look exactly right.
Canva Fonts
Cursive text styles for the Canva text box, with the steps to paste them and what the app keeps.
Styled text uses symbol characters that screen readers announce as symbols.
- Bold Script
- Bold Italic
- Heart Script
- Star Script
- Sparkle Script
- Dotted Script
- Arrow Script
- Wave Script
- Crown Script
- Flower Script
- Bracket Script
- Bold Script Spaced
- Script Spaced
- Bold Italic Spaced
- Fraktur Heart
- Double-struck Star
- Bold
- Sans
- Sans Bold
- Sans Italic
- Sans Bold Italic
- Monospace
- Fullwidth
- Monospace Spaced
- Sans Bold Spaced
- Script
- Italic
- Small Caps
- Superscript
- Subscript
- Fraktur
- Bold Fraktur
- Double-struck
- Bubble Letters
- Negative Circled
- Squared
- Negative Squared
- Parenthesized
- Cyrillic Lookalike
- Greek Lookalike
- Upside Down
- Mirrored
- Strikethrough
- Underline
- Double Underline
- Zalgo Light
- Zalgo Heavy
- Spaced
- Bold Underline
- Bold Script Underline
- Italic Strike
- Bold Strike
Where to paste on Canva
text box
- Add a text element
- Paste the styled text
- Or download a PNG or SVG from the font generator and upload it for exact fonts
For a specific font, use an image export; pasted Unicode ignores Canva's font picker.