Script Ipkov 2 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: greeting cards, invitations, packaging, branding, quotes, playful, friendly, whimsical, vintage, casual, hand-lettered feel, cheerful display, decorative initials, casual elegance, looping, bouncy, monoline feel, rounded, brushed.
A lively handwritten script with tall ascenders, compact lowercase bodies, and a bouncy baseline rhythm. Strokes show noticeable thick–thin modulation, with rounded terminals and frequent entry/exit curls that create soft loops at joins and ends. Letterforms lean mostly upright with modest slant, and spacing is fairly open for a script, helping individual characters stay distinct even when connections appear loose or intermittent. Numerals and capitals carry the same brushy contrast and ornamental swashes, giving the set a cohesive, drawn-with-a-pen feel.
Best suited for short-to-medium display copy where its loops and contrast can be appreciated, such as greeting cards, invitations, boutique branding, product packaging, and pull quotes. It can also work for headings in lifestyle or craft-oriented designs, especially when paired with a simpler companion for body text.
The tone is warm and personable, mixing a tidy, formal-script influence with a lighthearted handcrafted bounce. It reads as inviting and slightly retro, with enough flourish to feel celebratory without becoming overly ornate.
The design appears intended to emulate a neat hand-lettered script with calligraphic contrast and approachable charm, balancing decorative capitals with readable, rounded lowercase forms for versatile display use.
Capitals are prominent and decorative, often using large initial strokes and gentle swashes that can set a strong word shape in titles. The lowercase includes tall, looped forms (notably in letters like l, f, g, and y), contributing to an airy vertical texture in text. The overall texture alternates between dense downstrokes and fine hairlines, producing a crisp, calligraphic sparkle at display sizes.