Calligraphic Yitu 10 is a very bold, very wide, high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, packaging, branding, retro, showcard, playful, dramatic, swagger, attention grab, retro flavor, expressive display, signlike styling, rounded, bracketed, swashy, bouncy, clubby.
A heavy, right-slanted calligraphic display face with soft, rounded terminals and pronounced swelling-and-thinning through the strokes. Letterforms lean on broad, scoop-like entry strokes and curled exit strokes, creating a bouncy baseline rhythm and a distinctly gestural texture. Counters tend to be tight and dark, with compact apertures and chunky joins; many capitals carry extended top strokes and teardrop-like ends that read as subtle swashes. Numerals are similarly weighty and stylized, built from bold, curved silhouettes with a slightly compressed internal space.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, event titles, signage, packaging labels, and brand marks that want a retro calligraphic flavor. It can work for pull quotes or short bursts of text at larger sizes, where the tight counters and bold curves remain clear and expressive.
The overall tone feels theatrical and vintage, with a confident, showy swagger. Its curves and flourishes suggest a warm, personable voice—more lounge-signage and poster headline than formal book typography—balancing elegance with a playful, slightly mischievous character.
The design appears intended to deliver a dramatic, vintage-leaning scriptless calligraphic look with strong presence and motion. Its emphasis on thick sculpted strokes, rounded terminals, and swashy accents suggests a focus on memorable display typography rather than neutral, extended reading.
Spacing appears intentionally generous for a dense, display-weight design, helping the dark shapes breathe in words while preserving a strong, continuous rhythm. The italic slant and repeated hooked terminals give lines of text a flowing, almost wave-like movement, especially noticeable in mixed-case words.