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Free signature generator
Type your name and pick a style, or draw your signature. You get a transparent PNG for emails, documents and invoices, made on this page and never uploaded.
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Transparent PNG, cropped to the signature. It's made on this page and never uploaded.
A signature image vs. an e-signature
The PNG you make here is useful, but it isn't proof of anything. US law (the ESIGN Act, 15 U.S.C. 7006) defines an electronic signature as a sound, symbol or process attached to a record and adopted by a person with the intent to sign it. What makes an e-signature hold up is the evidence around it: who signed, when, and that they meant to. A pasted image carries none of that.
| Question | Signature image (PNG) | E-signature with an audit trail |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A picture of your name | A signing process tied to one document and one person |
| Shows who signed | No, anyone with the file can paste it | Signer's email, IP address and device are recorded |
| Shows when | No | Time of every view, consent and signature |
| Shows the document wasn't changed | No | A fingerprint (hash) of the PDF before and after signing |
| Shows intent to sign | No | The signer agrees to sign electronically before signing |
| Good for | Email footers, letterheads, your own records | Contracts, agreements, approvals from clients |
Some documents, like wills and certain court and family law papers, can't be signed electronically at all, and rules change by state and country. Read are electronic signatures legal? for the details. This page isn't legal advice.
Tips for a clean signature
Downloads are cropped to the signature. A drawn one is exported at three times the size of the pad, and a typed one at a font size of about 160 px, so both stay sharp when you scale them down. Blue ink makes it obvious on a printed page that the signature isn't a photocopy. To place it on a PDF, insert the PNG as an image; the transparent background keeps lines and text under it visible.
IN SHORT
A signature image is a picture of your name. It looks like a signature, but on its own it doesn't prove who added it or when, and anyone with the file can paste it. A legally binding e-signature under the US ESIGN Act and UETA needs the signer's intent to sign and a record that ties the signature to that person and that document, which is what an e-signature tool's audit trail provides.
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