Faith in Cursive

Faith runs 5 letters — 2 vowels against 3 consonants — and Cursive restyles every one of them above, each with its own permanent code point. The rarest letter in Faith is F — only 10 of the 26 English letters are used less often.

Spelled over the radio, Faith would begin "Foxtrot"; on a Scrabble rack its letters would add up to 11 points. Its initial F also moonlights as a musical note name, a hexadecimal digit.

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

Expect cursive Faith to measure larger than it looks. 5 letters go in; a strict counter reads 9. That is the difference between counting characters and counting the units they are stored in.

The gap comes from where the letters live. ℱ (F, U+2131) comes from Letterlike Symbols; Faith's remaining 4 come from the maths block past U+1D400. The two sets were added years apart, and the older one won — wherever a script letter already existed, the newer block simply left the slot empty.

Handwritten, what gives Faith its shape is the strokes that escape the middle band: f, t and h reach above the top line and f drops below the baseline. Copying loses that entirely — these are individual characters, not a connected hand, so nothing links one letter to the next.