Calligraphic Kedi 10 is a bold, normal width, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, packaging, posters, invitations, greeting cards, whimsical, storybook, vintage, festive, romantic, decorative, expressive, handcrafted, display, swashy, ornate, flourished, playful, brushed.
A calligraphic, brush-like script with a forward slant and pronounced thick–thin modulation. Strokes expand into teardrop terminals and curled entry/exit swashes, giving many letters a sculpted, ornamental finish. Letterforms are largely unconnected, with lively, slightly irregular widths and a bouncy baseline rhythm. Counters tend to be compact and the lowercase sits relatively low against tall ascenders and descenders, producing a decorative, vertical silhouette.
Best suited to short, prominent text where the swashes and contrast can be appreciated—headlines, titles, packaging accents, posters, invitations, and greeting-card style messaging. It can work as a decorative secondary face paired with a simpler text font, and is likely to feel busy at very small sizes or in dense paragraphs.
The overall tone is playful and theatrical, blending a vintage sign-painting feel with storybook charm. Its curls and soft terminals read as friendly and celebratory, suggesting hand-crafted warmth rather than strict formality.
The design appears intended as an expressive display script that mimics confident brush calligraphy while staying legible as separated letterforms. Its emphasis on curls, teardrop terminals, and lively rhythm points to branding and celebratory contexts where personality is more important than neutrality.
Uppercase shapes lean toward display capitals with prominent interior curls (notably in round letters) and distinctive, swashed diagonals. Numerals echo the same calligraphic logic, using rounded bodies and curled terminals that keep the set visually cohesive.