Make a signature image you can reuse anywhere.
This page does one thing: it turns your signature into an image file. Draw it with a mouse, finger or trackpad, type it in a script face, or upload a photo of the one you sign on paper — then download it as a transparent PNG.
- Downloads as signature.png — transparent, no white box
- Draw it, type it, or upload a photo of your ink signature
- Built in your browser — the image is never sent to us
Draw above with your mouse or finger — or switch to “Type”.
From blank pad to reusable file
Pick how you sign
Draw on the pad with a mouse, finger or trackpad, type your name in one of three signature faces, or upload a photo of a signature you already have on paper.
Set the ink
Choose Ink, Blue or Emerald, then sign large and slowly. The pad captures exactly what you see, so the strokes you draw are the strokes you get.
Download signature.png
Press Download PNG and the transparent image saves straight to your device. Keep it somewhere you can find it — you will reuse the same file for years.
Which one actually looks like your signature?
A drawn signature is the closest thing to what you put on paper, but a mouse is a blunt instrument: most first attempts look like a child's handwriting, because your wrist can't move the way it does with a pen. A trackpad is better, a phone or tablet under a fingertip is better still. If a stroke comes out wrong, use Undo rather than Clear — it removes only the last stroke, so you can rebuild the flourish without starting over.
A typed signature is not a lesser signature. You type your full name, pick one of three faces — Flowing, a connected script; Classic, a brush script; or Print, a plain modern face — and the pad renders it. It's consistent, always legible, and it never looks shaky. When the person receiving the document has to read your name rather than admire it, typed is usually the more useful of the two.
If neither feels right, the third tab takes a photo or scan of the signature you already sign on paper. Sign a blank sheet with a dark pen, photograph it in good light, and upload the PNG, JPG or WEBP — the pad scales it down to the signature band for you. One honest caveat: a photo brings its own background with it, so the drawn and typed versions are the ones that come out genuinely transparent.
Drawing wins when…
- You're on a phone, tablet or trackpad rather than a mouse
- The document is personal — a note, a card, an informal agreement
- You want the mark to resemble the one on your ID or bank card
Typing wins when…
- Someone has to read your name, not admire it
- You're on a desktop with nothing but a mouse
- You want the signature to look identical every single time
Why a transparent PNG is the only version worth keeping
The pad exports a PNG with a transparent background rather than a JPG, and that single difference decides whether your signature is reusable. A JPG has to fill every pixel, so it arrives as a white rectangle that sits on top of whatever is underneath it — a printed signature line, a shaded box, a colored letterhead. A transparent PNG carries only the ink, so drop it over a signature line and the line still shows through.
Ink color matters more than it looks. The default Ink navy reads like a real pen on white paper and photocopies cleanly. Blue is the traditional way to show a page is an original rather than a copy. Whichever you choose, stay with it — a signature that changes color from document to document is exactly the sort of small inconsistency people notice.
Size is handled for you. Whatever you draw or type is rendered into a band of roughly 720 × 220 pixels: large enough to stay crisp when it lands on a page or gets printed, small enough to email without a second thought.
- Transparent background — no white box over the signature line
- Three ink colors: Ink, Blue and Emerald
- Three typed faces: Flowing, Classic and Print
- Saved as signature.png, ready to reuse anywhere
Your signature is drawn in your browser
The pad is a canvas inside the page you're reading. Every stroke is drawn locally, the PNG is encoded locally, and the download is handed straight to your browser. Using the maker on this page sends nothing to tuyaform — no upload step, no account, and no copy of your signature sitting on our servers for us to store, lose or hand over.
The flip side is that the file lives wherever you saved it. Nothing syncs it between your laptop and your phone, and emptying your downloads folder deletes it. If you sign things regularly, keep signature.png alongside your other important documents and back it up like one.
A signature image is a picture, not proof
The PNG you just downloaded is an image file. It records what your signature looks like and nothing else: not who placed it, not when, not from where, and not whether the document changed afterwards. Anyone who receives a page with your signature on it also receives a perfectly usable copy of that signature — worth remembering before you paste it into something that travels widely.
For a lot of everyday paper, that's completely fine. For anything that could be questioned later — a contract, a lease, an authorization, anything with money or liability attached — the signature needs a record around it: a timestamp, the signer's email and IP address, a document hash, a certificate that ties the whole thing together. That's a different job, and it's the one the upload-and-sign flow for PDFs was built to do.
An image is fine for
- Internal notes, memos and letters
- A form that just needs a visible mark
- Email footers, slides and letterheads
- Something both sides have already agreed on
You need a real signing flow for
- Contracts, leases and NDAs
- Anything a third party may have to verify later
- Documents with several signers, or a signing order
- Anything where the date signed has to be provable
Putting signature.png onto an actual document
Most desktop PDF readers can place an image on a page. Open the PDF, reach for whatever your reader calls Fill & Sign or Add image, choose signature.png, then drag it onto the signature line and scale it until it reads as a signature rather than a banner. Because the PNG is transparent, the printed line underneath stays visible instead of disappearing behind a white block.
Word processors and slide tools treat it the same way: Insert, then Picture, then set the wrap to sit in front of text so the image floats over a printed line instead of shoving paragraphs around. For an email footer, keep it under roughly 200 pixels wide so it doesn't dwarf your name.
If the document is a PDF and you'd rather not nudge an image around by hand, the walkthrough in how to fill and sign a PDF online covers the whole job end to end — including what to do when the PDF has no signature line to aim at.
Signature maker FAQs
Is the signature maker really free?
Yes, and there's nothing to sign up for. Draw, type or upload your signature, download the PNG, and use it wherever you like. No trial, no watermark on the image, no counter that runs out.
What exactly do I get when I press Download PNG?
A single file called signature.png: a transparent image of roughly 720 × 220 pixels containing only the strokes of your signature in the ink color you picked. No background, no border, no tuyaform branding anywhere on it.
Do you store my signature?
No. The pad draws to a canvas in your browser and encodes the PNG there, and the file goes straight to your downloads. Nothing is transmitted to tuyaform when you use the maker on this page, so there's nothing on our side to keep.
Is a signature image legally valid?
It can support a valid signature. Under the U.S. ESIGN Act and UETA, and eIDAS in the EU, a simple electronic signature is generally admissible — but what makes one hold up is evidence that you intended to sign, not the picture itself. An image carries no timestamp, no identity check and no tamper-evidence, so treat it as your mark rather than as your proof.
Can I use the same signature image on every document?
Yes, and you probably should — reusing one image is what makes it recognisably yours. Just remember that every copy you send out is a copy somebody else now holds, so keep the higher-stakes documents for a signing flow that records who signed and when.
Why does my uploaded photo have a background?
Because a photo captures the paper as well as the ink. The upload tab scales your image down to the signature band, but it doesn't erase what's behind the strokes. If you need a genuinely transparent signature, draw or type it on the pad instead.
A picture of a signature, or a signed document?
The maker is free and always will be. When a document actually has to stand up — a contract, a lease, an approval — create a free account and sign it with an audit trail and a Certificate of Completion behind it.