Script Ribom 9 is a light, very narrow, very high contrast, upright, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, wedding, branding, packaging, headlines, elegant, refined, romantic, airy, whimsical, signature feel, formal flourish, luxury tone, decorative display, calligraphic, hairline, swashy, looping, elongated.
A delicate calligraphic script with pronounced stroke modulation: thick, inky downstrokes contrasted by hairline upstrokes and entry/exit strokes. Letterforms are generally upright with a narrow, elongated rhythm, showing tall ascenders and deep descenders that create a vertical, graceful silhouette. Connections are fluid but not uniformly continuous, with occasional breaks and tapering terminals that mimic a pointed-pen or brush-pen movement. Capitals are especially distinctive, featuring slender spines, large oval loops, and understated swashes; spacing feels intentionally airy to accommodate the fine hairlines and long joins.
Well-suited to short display settings where its loops and hairlines can be appreciated—wedding suites, invitations, greeting cards, boutique branding, beauty/fashion packaging, and editorial or social headlines. It works best when given generous size and whitespace, and when paired with a quieter supporting text face to maintain readability.
The overall tone is polished and romantic, balancing formality with a light, handwritten charm. Its thin hairlines and looping capitals read as elegant and slightly whimsical, lending a boutique, invitation-like atmosphere rather than a casual note.
Designed to evoke a formal handwritten signature and classic calligraphic penmanship, prioritizing graceful vertical proportions, dramatic contrast, and expressive capitals. The styling aims to deliver an upscale, decorative voice for names, titles, and ceremonial messaging rather than dense paragraph text.
Numerals and several capitals use large loop structures and long, tapering strokes that add flourish and emphasize verticality. The texture on a line is crisp and high-contrast, so the finest strokes feel sensitive to size and background, while the heavier downstrokes keep the word shapes anchored.