Cursive Bamed 10 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, posters, social media, quotes, playful, friendly, handmade, casual, expressive, handwritten feel, friendly tone, display impact, personal voice, brush lettering, brushy, bouncy, rounded, lively, swashy.
A lively, handwritten cursive with a brush-pen feel, showing tapered entry and exit strokes and visibly modulated thickness that suggests pressure. Letterforms are slightly forward-slanted with soft, rounded terminals and occasional looped joins, while spacing and widths vary in an organic, hand-drawn rhythm. Capitals are prominent and gestural, mixing simple forms with a few swash-like strokes, and the numerals follow the same fluid, calligraphic construction for a cohesive set.
Well-suited for short to medium display text where a personal, handcrafted voice is desired, such as brand marks, packaging callouts, posters, invitations, and social graphics. It can also work for pull quotes and headings, especially when paired with a simpler companion for longer body copy.
The overall tone is upbeat and approachable, with a conversational, personal quality typical of quick brush lettering. Its bouncy rhythm and expressive capitals add a touch of charm and spontaneity, making the text feel warm, informal, and energetic rather than formal or restrained.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of brush-script handwriting—fluid, legible, and characterful—while maintaining enough consistency to function as a usable display face. Its expressive capitals and pressure-like contrast aim to add personality and motion to titles and branding copy.
The sample text shows smooth word shapes at display sizes, with distinctive movement in curved letters and looped forms (notably in several capitals and in letters with descenders). The narrow proportions help lines pack efficiently, but the varying stroke modulation and lively forms make it most at home when given enough size and breathing room.