Signature generator: draw or type your signature
Draw your signature with a mouse, trackpad or finger, or type your name and pick a handwriting style. Download it as a transparent PNG for Word, Gmail or a form, and when the document actually matters, apply it in Chaindoc and get a signed file with an audit trail behind it.
How to create a signature online
Three steps, about two minutes. The signature lives in your account afterwards, so the next document takes one click rather than another round of drawing.
Open the generator
Sign in to Chaindoc and open your signature settings. Creating and storing a signature is part of the free tier, and nothing installs on your machine.
Draw it or type your name
Draw with a mouse, trackpad or finger, or type your name and choose a handwriting style. Redraw as often as you like until the stroke looks like your own hand.
Download it, or sign
Save it as a transparent PNG for Word, Gmail or a scanned form. Or apply it to a document here and get a signed file with a verifiable trail.
A signature you can actually use
Most generators hand you a picture and stop there. The picture is the easy half. Still deciding what to draw? Our signature ideas guide covers five styles and a method for building your own.
An image of a signature isn't a signed document
This is the part generators tend to leave out, and it's the part that decides whether your document holds up.
Create your signature, then sign something with it
Draw or type it once, keep it in your account, and apply it to contracts with automated reminders, KYC identity checks and a blockchain audit trail. The free tier covers creating the signature.
Common questions about creating a signature
What the image does, what it doesn't, and where to use it. More at our support page.
On its own, no. A PNG of your handwriting is a picture: anyone who receives it can copy it onto another document, and nothing records who applied it or when. What carries legal weight is the evidence around the signature, meaning the signer's authentication, a timestamp and a record of the document as it was signed. That's the difference between pasting an image into a PDF and signing the PDF in Chaindoc.
A generator produces the visual. An electronic signature is the legal act, and it needs an audit trail: who signed, when, from where, and proof the file hasn't changed since. Chaindoc does both, which is why the signature you create here can be applied to a real document rather than just downloaded.
Yes. The file comes with a transparent background, so it sits on a document without a white box around it. In Word use Insert, then Pictures; in Gmail put it in your signature block; in a PDF form drop it into the signature field. Bear in mind that in all three cases you're placing an image, not signing cryptographically. Our guide to signing a PDF works through every method.
You need a Chaindoc account, and the free tier covers creating and storing your signature. The reason it isn't anonymous is the same reason the signature is worth anything later: a stored signature belongs to a verified identity, so when you apply it to a document there's something to point at.
Your signature is saved to your account so you don't redraw it for every document, and you can replace or delete it whenever you like. Documents you already signed keep the signature that was applied at the time, because changing a signature retroactively would break the audit trail that makes it evidence.
Drawn signatures look like you and read as personal; typed ones in a handwriting font look tidier and stay legible at small sizes. If the document may end up in front of a lawyer, the visual matters far less than the audit trail behind it, so pick whichever you'll actually recognise as yours.
Run the file through signature verification. It reports integrity, the certificate chain, revocation status and timestamps separately, which tells you whether the document changed after signing or the issuer simply isn't in your reader's trust list.
Signature guides and resources
How to sign, what makes a signature hold up, and how to check one that arrives from somebody else.
Signature Ideas: How to Design a Signature You'll Actually Use
Signature ideas that survive real documents: five styles compared, a six-step method to design your own, and the point where a signature image stops counting.
Free Online Signature Generator & Maker: Create Your Signature
Free online signature generator and maker: draw, type, or upload your signature as transparent PNG. Learn when you need a legally binding eSignature.
How to Sign a PDF: Every Method for Mac, Windows, Phone, and Free Online
Learn how to sign a PDF on Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android, or free online, no Adobe required. Compare methods and check if e-signatures are legally binding.