Script Runu 10 is a light, very narrow, very high contrast, upright, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invites, branding, packaging, headlines, quotes, elegant, airy, refined, whimsical, delicate, formality, expressiveness, ornament, handmade feel, luxury accent, calligraphic, monoline feel, looped ascenders, swashy caps, tall ascenders.
This script has tall, slender letterforms with pronounced stroke contrast and a lightly drawn feel. Strokes tend to enter and exit with tapered terminals, and many characters include long ascenders/descenders and subtle loops that create a graceful vertical rhythm. Capitals are especially decorative, using extended entry strokes and occasional flourished crossbars, while lowercase forms stay relatively simple and narrow with compact counters. Spacing appears intentionally open in places, letting the thin hairlines and elongated shapes read clearly in short phrases.
Best suited for display settings where its delicate strokes and flourished capitals can be appreciated—such as invitations, boutique branding, product packaging, social graphics, and short headline or quote treatments. It works particularly well when paired with a restrained serif or sans for supporting text and when given ample size and whitespace.
The overall tone is elegant and poetic, with a breezy, handwritten charm. Its high-contrast strokes and swashy capitals add a sense of formality, while the slightly irregular, pen-drawn movement keeps it personable rather than rigid.
The letterforms suggest an attempt to capture a formal pen-script aesthetic with modern lightness—prioritizing elegance, vertical grace, and expressive capitals for ornamental typography rather than dense, long-form reading.
The design emphasizes verticality: many letters (notably in the capitals and looped descenders) reach far above and below the baseline, which can make lines feel lively but also demands generous leading. Numerals mirror the same calligraphic contrast, with a few figures using single-story, flowing constructions rather than rigid geometric forms.