Script Tenuf 1 is a light, narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, greeting cards, wedding stationery, brand signatures, headlines, elegant, airy, refined, personal, romantic, handwritten elegance, decorative capitals, signature feel, formal script, looping, calligraphic, flowing, delicate, high-ascenders.
A delicate, right-slanted script with thin, smooth strokes and gentle contrast that suggests a pen-like origin. Letterforms are narrow and vertically oriented, with tall ascenders and descenders and compact lowercase proportions that keep the mid-zone small. Curves are clean and continuous, with frequent looped entry/exit strokes and occasional swash-like terminals on capitals and select lowercase forms. Spacing and widths vary naturally across glyphs, creating a handwritten rhythm while maintaining consistent stroke behavior and rounded joins.
This font is best suited to short, expressive text where its loops and slender strokes can be appreciated—such as invitations, greeting cards, wedding materials, boutique branding, and signature-style wordmarks. It also works for headlines or pull quotes when set with generous spacing and sufficient size to preserve clarity.
The overall tone is graceful and intimate, leaning toward romantic and polished rather than casual. Its light touch and looping forms convey a sense of formality and care, like neat personal correspondence or a carefully written invitation.
The design appears intended to emulate a neat, formal handwritten script with an emphasis on elegance, flowing connections, and decorative capitals, prioritizing aesthetic rhythm over dense text readability.
Capitals are prominent and decorative, often built from large initial curves and restrained flourishes that read well at display sizes. Numerals match the script personality with similarly slender forms and rounded turns, keeping the set visually cohesive.