Script Uhlem 1 is a very light, very narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: wedding, invitations, greeting cards, branding, packaging, airy, elegant, whimsical, delicate, vintage, elegance, formality, personal touch, boutique style, ornamental caps, monoline feel, hairline, looping, tall ascenders, long descenders.
A delicate, calligraphic script with hairline strokes and pronounced vertical emphasis. Letterforms are tall and slender, with compact bowls and generous ascenders/descenders that create a light, floaty rhythm. Terminals often finish in fine teardrops or soft hooks, and several capitals feature restrained flourishes and occasional cross-strokes. Connectivity is suggested in the cursive construction, but spacing remains open enough to keep words readable at display sizes.
Best suited to short display settings where the fine strokes can be appreciated—wedding suites, greeting cards, boutique branding, cosmetic or artisan packaging, and elegant pull quotes. It also works well for monograms or initial-led wordmarks where the ornate capitals can take center stage.
The overall tone feels refined and romantic, with a gentle, handwritten charm. Its thin strokes and looping forms give it a graceful, slightly whimsical character that reads as personal and boutique rather than corporate.
The design appears intended to emulate a neat, formal handwritten script with a high-fashion lightness—prioritizing elegance and vertical refinement over dense text economy. Its consistent slender construction and selective flourishes suggest a focus on decorative readability for names, titles, and curated phrases.
Capitals tend to be more ornamental than lowercase, providing a natural hierarchy for initials and short headlines. Numerals follow the same airy logic, with simplified, lightly looped shapes that match the script’s delicate contrast.