Cursive Ardiz 9 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: greeting cards, branding, social posts, packaging, invitations, playful, casual, friendly, whimsical, lively, handwritten feel, casual display, personal tone, brush script, expressive caps, brushy, bouncy, looping, rounded, monoline-ish.
A lively handwritten script with a rightward slant and an energetic, brush-pen rhythm. Strokes show pronounced contrast between thicker downstrokes and finer upstrokes, with rounded terminals and occasional tapered entry/exit strokes. Letterforms are tall and compact, with looped ascenders/descenders and a bouncy baseline that gives words a hand-drawn cadence. Connections are frequent in lowercase, while capitals are more standalone and gestural, creating an informal but legible flow in mixed-case settings.
Well-suited for display use where a friendly handwritten feel is desired—greeting cards, invitations, product packaging, café menus, and social media graphics. It performs best at medium-to-large sizes in short to moderate text runs, where the stroke contrast and lively joins can be appreciated without crowding.
The overall tone feels upbeat and personable, like quick brush lettering on a card or note. Its looping forms and animated joins read as approachable and slightly whimsical, bringing a warm, informal voice to short phrases and display lines.
Designed to emulate quick, confident brush handwriting with connected lowercase and expressive capitals, prioritizing personality and movement over strict formal regularity. The intent appears to be a versatile casual script that reads clearly while still feeling personal and hand-made.
Capitals have distinctive, simplified brush constructions that can appear more decorative than the lowercase, which keeps a consistent connected script structure. Numerals echo the same pen movement with curvy, open forms and occasional looped details, supporting cohesive typographic color in headings and casual numerals-in-text.