Cursive Irlum 2 is a regular weight, narrow, low contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, greeting cards, branding, packaging, headlines, romantic, personal, airy, vintage, graceful, signature feel, personal tone, elegant script, handwritten realism, display use, looping, monoline, slanted, open, lightfooted.
A flowing cursive script with a consistent, monoline-like stroke and a pronounced rightward slant. Letterforms are built from long, looping entry and exit strokes, with open bowls and generous curves that keep counters clear even as shapes connect. Uppercase characters are tall and expressive with sweeping swashes, while lowercase forms stay compact with short bodies and extended ascenders/descenders that create a lively vertical rhythm. Spacing feels variable and organic, reinforcing a handwritten cadence rather than rigid typographic regularity.
Well-suited to invitations, greeting cards, and event materials where a personal handwritten voice is desired. It can also work for boutique branding, labels, and packaging accents, as well as short headlines or pull quotes that benefit from a graceful, signature-like presence.
The overall tone is warm and personable, with an airy elegance that leans romantic and slightly nostalgic. Its continuous motion and soft curves suggest an informal signature style—polished enough to feel deliberate, but still clearly human and conversational.
The font appears intended to emulate fast, fluent handwriting with a refined touch—capturing the spontaneity of pen script while keeping forms coherent and consistently styled across the set. Its emphasis on motion, looping terminals, and expressive capitals points to use in display-oriented, personality-driven typography rather than dense text settings.
Connections between letters are frequent and smooth, and many characters rely on long terminals that can extend into neighboring space, especially in capitals and letters with descenders. Numerals follow the same cursive logic, with rounded forms and slanted construction that harmonize with the alphabet. The design reads best when given a bit of breathing room to let the loops and swashes remain distinct.