Calligraphic Metu 3 is a light, normal width, low contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, wedding, greeting cards, branding, logotypes, elegant, romantic, classic, gentle, personal, formal hand, decorative caps, signature feel, celebratory tone, swashy, looped, flowing, graceful, delicate.
A flowing, right-slanted calligraphic hand with smooth, monoline strokes and rounded terminals. Capitals are prominent and decorative, featuring generous entry/exit swashes, looped bowls, and occasional extended cross-strokes that add horizontal flourish. Lowercase forms stay mostly open and readable, with soft curves, modest ascenders/descenders, and a consistent, pen-written rhythm; counters are round and spacing feels airy rather than tight. Numerals echo the same cursive logic with simplified curves and light, continuous-looking strokes.
Best suited to short, prominent text where the swashy capitals can be featured—such as invitations, wedding materials, greeting cards, boutique branding, and logo wordmarks. It can also work for pull quotes or headings when set with comfortable spacing and moderate sizes to preserve the delicate stroke quality.
The overall tone is refined and personable, suggesting a polite handwritten signature rather than casual marker script. Its swashes and looping caps lend a romantic, traditional feel that reads as formal and celebratory without becoming overly ornate.
The font appears designed to emulate a neat, formal hand written with a steady pen, balancing legibility with decorative capital flourishes. Its primary aim is to provide a graceful, signature-like voice for display typography rather than dense body text.
The design relies on expressive uppercase forms to carry personality, while the lowercase remains comparatively restrained for longer phrases. The italic construction and smooth joins create a continuous left-to-right motion, and the punctuation and shapes shown in the sample text maintain the same gentle, calligraphic cadence.