I Love You in Cursive

I Love You runs 8 letters — 5 vowels against 3 consonants — and Cursive restyles every one of them above, each with its own permanent code point. The rarest letter in I Love You is V — only 5 of the 26 English letters are used less often.

Spelled over the radio, I Love You would begin "India"; on a Scrabble rack its letters would add up to 14 points. Its initial I also moonlights as a Roman numeral worth 1, one of the five vowels.

ℐ ℒℴ𝓋ℯ 𝒴ℴ𝓊 — the whole of I Love You, ready to copy from the card at the top.

Expect cursive I Love You to measure larger than it looks. 8 letters go in; a strict counter reads 11. That is the difference between counting characters and counting the units they are stored in.

The gap comes from where the letters live. ℐ (I, U+2110), ℒ (L, U+2112), ℴ (o, U+2134), ℯ (e, U+212F) and ℴ (o, U+2134) come from Letterlike Symbols, an older and much smaller corner of Unicode. I Love You's other 3 live past U+1D400 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Supplement. The split is deliberate: eleven script letters already existed when that block was drawn up, so their slots were left empty rather than duplicated.

Written by hand rather than pasted, I Love You is shaped by which strokes leave the middle band: l reaches above the top line, y drops below the baseline and o and v finish high, so the join into the next letter comes down from above. None of that survives the copy — the Unicode letters above are fixed shapes with no joining strokes between them.