Believe in Cursive

Spelled out, Believe is 4 vowels and 3 consonants across 7 letters, and the grid above gives each one its Cursive form and code point. The rarest letter in Believe is V — only 5 of the 26 English letters are used less often.

Believe's letters would score 12 points on a Scrabble rack, and a radio operator would open it with "Bravo". Its initial B also moonlights as a musical note name, a hexadecimal digit.

ℬℯ𝓁𝒾ℯ𝓋ℯ — the whole of Believe, ready to copy from the card at the top.

Expect cursive Believe to measure larger than it looks. 7 letters go in; a strict counter reads 10. That is the difference between counting characters and counting the units they are stored in.

The gap comes from where the letters live. ℬ (B, U+212C), ℯ (e, U+212F), ℯ (e, U+212F) and ℯ (e, U+212F) come from the Letterlike Symbols block rather than the maths block the rest of Believe uses. Eleven script letters — capitals B, E, F, H, I, L, M, R and lowercase e, g, o — predate the Mathematical Alphanumeric Supplement, so Unicode skipped their positions in it and kept pointing at the originals.

The handwritten form of Believe is defined by what rises and falls out of the x-height: b and l reach above the top line and b and v finish high, so the join into the next letter comes down from above. None of that motion survives copying — each character arrives finished, so the letters stand apart rather than running together.