Cursive Merih 1 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, branding, packaging, quotes, friendly, energetic, casual, playful, handmade, handwritten feel, expressiveness, brush texture, personal tone, display impact, brushy, rounded, looping, compact, bouncy.
A brush-pen cursive with a compact, right-leaning structure and visibly pressure-shaped strokes. Terminals are rounded and slightly tapered, with occasional flicks and hooks that suggest quick, confident writing. The letterforms keep tight internal spaces and a relatively low lowercase profile, while capitals are larger and more gestural, often starting with a bold entry stroke. Overall rhythm is lively and slightly irregular in a natural way, with spacing and widths shifting subtly from glyph to glyph for an authentic handwritten flow.
Best suited for short to medium display text where its brush texture and lively rhythm can be appreciated—such as headlines, posters, social graphics, packaging callouts, and brand marks with a personal tone. It can also work for pull quotes and invitations when generous size and line spacing are used to preserve clarity.
The font reads warm and approachable, like an upbeat note written with a marker or brush pen. Its bouncy slant and confident stroke weight give it an energetic, personable tone that feels informal and expressive rather than refined or formal.
Designed to capture the look of fast brush handwriting with bold presence and a friendly, contemporary feel. The intent appears focused on expressiveness and immediacy—prioritizing gesture, rhythm, and a natural handwritten texture for display-driven communication.
Many characters show simplified, single-stroke constructions and soft joins, helping words form a continuous visual line even when letters are not strictly connected. Numerals are similarly brushy and rounded, matching the script’s momentum and maintaining the same energetic contrast between thick downstrokes and lighter connecting strokes.