Script Lako 8 is a light, normal width, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: wedding, invitations, greeting cards, branding, headlines, elegant, formal, romantic, refined, classic, formal flair, calligraphic tone, ceremonial feel, signature style, display elegance, calligraphic, swashy, flowing, graceful, ornate.
A delicate calligraphic script with a pronounced forward slant and clear thick–thin modulation. Strokes taper to fine points with hairline entry/exit strokes and rounded, ink-like joins, creating a smooth, continuous rhythm across words. Capitals are prominent and looped with restrained swashes, while lowercase forms are narrow and compact with a relatively small x-height and long, expressive ascenders and descenders. Numerals follow the same cursive logic, leaning and tapering with consistent contrast and softly curved terminals.
Best suited for display applications where its fine hairlines and flourished forms can breathe—wedding suites, formal invitations, greeting cards, boutique branding, packaging accents, and short headlines. It works especially well for names, titles, and pull quotes rather than dense, small body text.
The overall tone feels polished and ceremonial, with a romantic, handwritten sophistication. Its flourished capitals and high-contrast strokes evoke invitations, acknowledgements, and traditional correspondence, leaning more classic than casual.
Designed to emulate formal penmanship with a graceful, high-contrast stroke and elegant connectivity, prioritizing charm and ceremony over utilitarian readability at small sizes. The generous capital ornamentation and elongated extenders aim to add a sense of occasion and crafted refinement.
Letter connections are generally fluid and consistent, but the design retains a hand-rendered character through slight variations in stroke curvature and spacing. The tight lowercase proportions and long extenders make the texture lively, while the airy hairlines keep the color light and refined in larger settings.