✍️ Signature Generator
Draw your signature with a mouse or finger, or type your name in a handwriting font — then download a transparent PNG. Nothing is ever uploaded.
✓ Free Forever · ✓ No Signup · ✓ No Upload · ✓ Works Offline
🔒 Your signature never leaves your device. A signature is sensitive. This tool draws and exports it entirely in your browser — there is no upload, no account, and nothing is stored. Close the tab and it is gone.
Features
- Draw or type — Sign freehand with a mouse, trackpad or finger, type your name in a handwriting font, or turn a photo of your signature on paper into a transparent PNG.
- Transparent PNG — Download a clean PNG with a transparent background, trimmed tight — drop it straight into Word, a PDF, or an email.
- Never uploaded — Everything happens locally in your browser. Your signature is never sent anywhere, stored, or watermarked.
- Color & thickness — Pick black or ink-blue, set the pen thickness or font size, and undo strokes until it feels right.
How It Works
- Draw or type — Choose Draw to sign by hand, or Type to render your name in a handwriting font.
- Adjust — Set the color, thickness or font size; undo any stroke you do not like.
- Download — Export a transparent PNG, cropped to your signature, ready to paste into a document.
Use Cases
- Sign a PDF, contract or form
- Add a signature to your email footer
- Make a clean handwritten-style logo or name
- Keep a sensitive signature off third-party servers
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I create a signature online and download it?
Draw your signature on the pad (or type your name in a handwriting font), then click Download PNG. You get a transparent image you can drop into any document.
Is the background transparent?
Yes. The PNG is exported with a transparent background and trimmed to your signature, so it sits cleanly on a contract, email or PDF.
Is my signature uploaded anywhere?
No — and that matters for something this sensitive. The whole thing runs in your browser: no upload, no account, no storage, no watermark.
Can I type my signature instead of drawing it?
Yes. Switch to Type, enter your name and pick one of the handwriting fonts, then download it as a transparent PNG.
Can I use it to sign a Word document or PDF?
Yes — download the transparent PNG and insert it as an image into Word, Google Docs, a PDF, or your email signature.
Can I type a name in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic or Greek?
You can, but the four handwriting fonts only cover Latin letters (with the accents of most European languages). A letter they don't have is drawn in your device's own font — plain, not handwriting — and the page names those letters and the fonts that do have them. For a signature in another script, use Draw and sign by hand.
I already signed on paper — can I turn a photo of it into a transparent PNG?
Yes. Choose Photo and drop a picture of your signature (a phone photo or a scan, HEIC works too). The page measures the paper colour across the photo, so a shadow or warm light doesn't leave a grey patch, makes the paper transparent and keeps the ink, in its own colour or one you pick. Clean-up decides how faint a mark still counts as ink. It all runs in your browser; the photo isn't uploaded.
Notes from Milo 🐨
A lot of you already have a signature: on paper, in your own pen. The sites that turn a photo of it into a transparent PNG all want the photo on their server first, which is the one thing I'd never do with a signature. So there's a Photo tab now. Drop a phone photo or scan of your signature and the paper turns transparent while the ink stays, in its own colour or black or blue. Phone photos are never really white, so the page measures the paper across the whole picture first; a shadow from your phone doesn't leave a grey smudge. If something else dark is in the shot (the table, the edge of the page) it says so.
Three things I found by actually signing on this page. Peek at the Type tab and come back, and your drawn signature was gone from the pad — while Download stayed lit and then saved nothing. It's still there now. On a phone, a second finger or a resting palm drew a straight line across your signature; only the first finger signs now, and quick flourishes come out as smooth curves instead of little corners. And if you type a name in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic or Greek, the four handwriting fonts simply don't have those letters, so they came out in a plain system font with no word from me. The page now names the letters a font is missing, points you to a font that has them, or suggests signing by hand.
Embarrassing one: the four handwriting fonts I shipped were the wrong slice of each font — the part with accented and Vietnamese letters, without a single a–z. So every typed signature came out in your browser's stand-in font. They're the real fonts now, the preview is the exact image you download (long names used to wrap and get cut off), the file is named after you, and drawn signatures export at twice the resolution so they print cleanly.
From the blog
- 📖 How to Create a Transparent Signature PNG for Documents — Make a clean signature PNG with a transparent background for signing PDFs and documents — draw it, type it or turn a photo of it on paper transparent, in your browser, without uploading your real signature to some random site.
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💬 Bug, idea, or just to say hi? Tell Milo 🐨 · [email protected]