Cursive Semif 9 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, posters, social media, greeting cards, friendly, playful, crafty, casual, warm, hand-lettered feel, friendly display, casual emphasis, craft aesthetic, brushy, looped, rounded, expressive, informal.
A brush-pen style script with tapered strokes and rounded terminals, showing noticeable pressure changes and slightly textured edges. Letterforms are compact and vertically oriented, with a tight rhythm and irregular, hand-drawn spacing that keeps the texture lively. Many lowercase characters are softly connected with looped joins, while capitals read as simplified, standalone gestures that remain consistent in stroke logic with the lowercase. Numerals follow the same brush construction, mixing open bowls and pinched transitions that reinforce the handwritten feel.
This font works well for logos and wordmarks that want a hand-lettered voice, as well as packaging, café menus, and boutique labels. It is also a strong choice for posters, social graphics, invitations, and greeting cards where expressive headlines and short phrases benefit from a casual brush-script texture.
The overall tone is upbeat and personable, with a crafted, homemade quality that feels approachable rather than polished. Its energetic strokes and bouncy joins suggest informality and spontaneity, making it suited to cheerful, human-centered messaging.
The design appears intended to capture a confident brush handwriting look that balances readability with expressive stroke contrast. It aims to deliver an informal, personal tone for display typography while keeping letterforms compact and consistent enough for short text lines.
Connections between letters are selective rather than fully continuous, which helps maintain clarity in mixed-case settings while preserving a natural written flow. The design favors rounded counters and soft curves over sharp angles, creating a smooth, friendly texture across longer lines of text.