Cursive Ofnuf 17 is a very light, very narrow, low contrast, upright, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, greeting cards, quotes, packaging, social media, airy, delicate, casual, whimsical, personal, personal voice, handwritten charm, light elegance, casual display, monoline, loopy, tall ascenders, long descenders, open counters.
A thin, monoline handwritten script with a gentle, steady rhythm and lightly irregular stroke behavior that reads as pen-drawn rather than mechanically constructed. Letterforms are narrow and vertically oriented, with tall ascenders, long descenders, and a noticeably small x-height that gives lines of text a spacious, airy texture. Curves are smooth and open, joins are soft, and crossbars and terminals often extend slightly past stems, contributing to a lively, sketch-like finish. Capitals are simplified and slender, blending easily into mixed-case text without becoming overly decorative.
Best suited for short display text such as invitations, greeting cards, pull quotes, labels, and lifestyle packaging where a personal handwritten voice is desired. It can also work for headers or short captions in digital graphics, but the fine strokes suggest avoiding very small sizes or low-contrast backgrounds.
The overall tone is light, intimate, and informal, like quick notes or a personal journal. Its looping strokes and fine weight convey a gentle, whimsical friendliness while remaining relatively neat and readable at display sizes.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of a lightly penned cursive hand—clean enough for legibility, yet retaining natural irregularities and looped forms to feel authentic and personable.
The alphabet shows consistent vertical proportions across glyphs, with modest baseline irregularity and a hand-led feel in spacing. Numerals follow the same thin, rounded construction, keeping the texture consistent when mixing text and figures.