Calligraphic Optu 9 is a very light, normal width, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, wedding, greeting cards, branding, headlines, elegant, romantic, refined, classic, graceful, formal script, elegant display, handwritten feel, classic tone, calligraphic, flowing, swashy, delicate, airy.
A delicate, right-slanted calligraphic italic with smooth, pen-like modulation and softly tapered terminals. Letterforms favor open curves and long entry/exit strokes, with occasional swash-like extensions on capitals and select lowercase. The rhythm is fluid and lightly connected in feel while remaining formally unjoined, and spacing stays even enough for continuous text despite the expressive strokes. Numerals match the cursive angle and keep a simple, lightly curved construction.
Well suited to wedding and event stationery, greeting cards, certificates, and boutique branding where an elegant scripted voice is desired. It also works for short headlines, pull quotes, and packaging accents, while extended passages benefit from comfortable sizes and ample line spacing.
The overall tone is polished and lyrical, evoking invitation script and traditional correspondence. Its gentle movement and restrained flourishes feel formal without becoming ornate, lending a calm, cultured personality.
Designed to emulate formal handwritten calligraphy with an italic slant, balancing legibility with tasteful flourishes. The intent appears to be a versatile script for refined display typography that can still set readable phrases and sentences.
Capitals carry the most decoration through extended lead-in strokes and generous loops, creating strong word-shape contrast against the smaller lowercase. The short x-height and prominent ascenders/descenders add vertical elegance, while the thin hairlines suggest best use where reproduction is clean and sizes are not overly small.