Hancock

A signature generator that lives in your browser.

Draw or type your signature, download a transparent PNG, copy to clipboard. No signup, no upload, nothing leaves your browser.

Live: https://benjamintravis.com/hancock/

Why

Every free signature generator either gates the download behind signup, watermarks the result, or produces a blurry mouse-jittered mess. Hancock is the lean version: open the page, draw, download, done.

Features

• Draw mode with perfect-freehand stroke geometry, Pointer Events, HiDPI scaling
• Optional Speed-aware mode: drawing speed drives line thickness for a hand-drawn feel
• Type mode with 6 handpicked Google Fonts (Dancing Script, Sacramento, Allura, Pinyon Script, Homemade Apple, Yellowtail)
• Transparent PNG export, cropped to ink bounds
• Copy-to-clipboard
• Stroke-level undo (⌘/Ctrl+Z), with "Undo" toast for accidental Clears
• Smoothness slider applies live to existing strokes
• Auto-persist to localStorage so a refresh doesn't lose your work
• Everything runs client-side; no backend, no signup, no watermark

Stack

• Vanilla TypeScript + Vite
• perfect-freehand for stroke geometry
• Pointer Events for unified mouse/touch/stylus input
• Static deploy to GitHub Pages via Actions

Develop

npm install
npm run dev

Build

npm run build
npm run preview

Not an e-signature tool

Hancock generates signature images. It is not a legal e-signature tool and does not provide identity verification, audit trails, or tamper-evident records. For legally binding signatures, use DocuSign, Adobe Sign, or similar.