Curly Font Generator

Type a line and find out which of its letters come with a curl attached.

This is a sample. Type your own to replace it.

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Mystery Quest, plain look, purple, on blush pink.

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How it works

This curly font generator sets your line in seven fonts whose strokes end in a spiral, so the letters you type decide how curly it gets. It opens on Mystery Quest in purple on Blush pink.

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Where each font keeps its curls

Mystery Quest puts spirals on about ten capitals and on small g, j, s and y, so jigsaw comes out curlier than detail. Sevillana, modelled on handmade ceramic plaques on Andalusian house walls, curls nearly every capital and almost no small letter: Title Case earns the most. Emilys Candy dots i and j with hearts.

Thicker lines, open spirals

Sevillana and Princess Sofia are thin. The Pen weight look thickens every stroke: at the middle of Strength of the look (under More options) the spirals stay open, and at full they shrink to pinholes. Outline and Sticker fill the gap inside each spiral, which chunkier Mystery Quest carries better. No Decoration draws a curl yet; Underline swash is nearest.

Tips
  • Skip all capitals in Sevillana and Princess Sofia: a row of flourishes reads as a wrought iron gate.
  • All seven fonts have é, ñ and ü. For ł, skip Sevillana, Henny Penny and Mountains of Christmas.

Questions and answers

Can I copy and paste from a curly text generator?

Not as letters: the curls live in font files, and pasted text leaves its font behind. Once you type, Copy picture puts the design on your clipboard as a PNG. For script letters that paste into a bio, use the cursive text generator.

Which curly font is easiest to read?

Emilys Candy, because under the curls it is an ordinary bold serif. Mystery Quest and Griffy come next. Sevillana's notes call it a headline typeface for middle and large sizes, and Princess Sofia's say titling, so keep those two to a few large words.

Can the whole line curl into a spiral?

Yes. Under More options, set Shape to Spiral. It coils the line, not the letters, and it wants a long sentence: three words get about two thirds of one turn, ten words a full coil.

Lines to curl

One tap draws any of these 8 in the look on show:

Fonts on this page

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Every font in this tool is free to use, also for things you sell. The files are served from this site under their open licence.

  • Mystery Quest by Sideshow. Copyright (c) 2012, Font Diner (www.fontdiner.com),. SIL Open Font License 1.1
  • Sevillana by Brownfox. Copyright (c) 2011, Brownfox (gayaneh.b@gmail.com),. SIL Open Font License 1.1
  • Emilys Candy by Neapolitan. Copyright (c) 2012, Font Diner (www.fontdiner.com),. SIL Open Font License 1.1
  • Princess Sofia by Tart Workshop. Copyright (c) 2011, Font Diner (www.fontdiner.com),. SIL Open Font License 1.1
  • Griffy by Neapolitan. Copyright (c) 2012, Font Diner (www.fontdiner.com),. SIL Open Font License 1.1
  • Henny Penny by Brownfox. Copyright (c) 2011, BrownFox (gayaneh.b@gmail.com|www.brownfox.org),. SIL Open Font License 1.1
  • Mountains of Christmas by Tart Workshop. Copyright (c) 2010 2011, Font Diner, Inc DBA Tart Workshop (diner@fontdiner.com) with Reserved Font Name \"Mountains of Christmas\". Apache License 2.0 (reduced to the Latin characters, saved as WOFF2)