Cursive Dagow 14 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, social media, branding, quotes, casual, playful, personal, energetic, friendly, handwritten feel, expressive display, friendly tone, informal branding, quick lettering, brushy, loose, looping, textured, bouncy.
A lively handwritten script with a brush-pen feel, showing quick, confident strokes and softly tapered terminals. Letterforms lean forward with an informal rhythm, mixing connected and semi-connected joins and allowing noticeable variation in character widths. Strokes show subtle texture and pressure changes, with rounded bowls, occasional looped ascenders/descenders, and a generally compact lowercase structure that sits low on the baseline. Capitals are tall and expressive, often starting with a prominent entry stroke that reads like a marker flick.
Works best for short-to-medium display text where a human, conversational voice is desired—posters, packaging callouts, social posts, event promos, and logo/wordmark explorations. It can also serve well for pull quotes or headers, especially when paired with a neutral sans for body copy.
The overall tone is casual and personable, like a spontaneous note or an informal headline written with a felt-tip or brush pen. Its bouncy rhythm and slightly imperfect edges give it warmth and immediacy, leaning playful rather than formal or calligraphic.
Designed to capture the speed and charm of real handwriting in a consistent font, emphasizing expressive capitals, brushy stroke endings, and an energetic forward slant for attention-grabbing display use.
Spacing and joins are intentionally irregular in a natural handwriting way, which adds character but makes the texture more animated across longer lines. Numerals match the same quick, hand-drawn logic, with simple shapes and open curves that keep them legible while maintaining the informal voice.