Script Abdar 8 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, upright, very short x-height font.
Keywords: greeting cards, invitations, packaging, social posts, quotes, whimsical, friendly, handmade, playful, casual, personal tone, display script, handwritten elegance, lightweight feel, looped, monoline feel, bouncy, tall ascenders, long descenders.
A tall, slender handwritten script with a lively, slightly bouncy baseline and narrow letterforms. Strokes show pronounced contrast between thicker downstrokes and finer hairline connections, with rounded terminals and occasional tapered entry/exit strokes. Many lowercase letters use simple loop constructions and open counters, while capitals are upright and elongated with restrained flourishes. Overall spacing is airy and the rhythm feels quick and pen-drawn rather than mechanically uniform.
Well-suited to short to medium lines where a personal voice is desired, such as greeting cards, invitations, labels, packaging accents, and social media graphics. It can also work for headlines and pull quotes when set with generous spacing and enough size to preserve the fine connecting strokes.
The font reads as lighthearted and personable, with an informal charm that suggests quick handwriting cleaned up for display. Its tall proportions and delicate connecting strokes give it a nimble, elegant playfulness rather than a formal calligraphic gravity.
The design appears intended to capture an upright, narrow handwritten look that balances legibility with expressive loops and high-contrast stroke movement. It aims to provide a friendly script voice that feels polished enough for display while still retaining the spontaneity of pen writing.
Lowercase forms tend to favor single-storey, loop-friendly shapes, and the numerals follow the same narrow, handwritten logic with smooth curves and minimal ornament. The thin joins and tall structure make the type feel refined, but the irregularities in curvature and joins preserve a distinctly human, crafted tone.