Cursive Tufi 9 is a light, narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, greeting cards, branding, packaging, quotes, elegant, romantic, friendly, personal, airy, handwritten elegance, soft personalization, display script, calligraphic, monolinear, looped, sweeping, fluid.
A flowing, right-leaning script with slender, smooth strokes and gently tapered terminals. Letterforms are built from long, continuous curves with frequent entry and exit strokes, producing a consistent cursive rhythm in words while still reading clearly at display sizes. Capitals are taller and more expressive, with open loops and occasional flourish-like swashes, while the lowercase stays compact with a delicate baseline wave. Counters tend to be open and rounded, and numerals follow the same handwritten logic with simplified, slightly irregular curves.
Well-suited to invitations, greeting cards, and event materials where a handwritten feel is desirable. It also works for boutique branding, beauty/lifestyle packaging, and short quote graphics or social posts where the elegant cursive rhythm can be featured at larger sizes.
The overall tone is graceful and personable, suggesting a handwritten note with a polished, calligraphic touch. Its light presence and sweeping motion feel romantic and friendly rather than formal or rigid, giving text an intimate, boutique character.
The design appears intended to provide a refined handwritten script that balances expressive capitals and smooth connections with legible, uncluttered lowercase forms for short to medium-length text.
Spacing appears naturally loose in longer samples, and many letters connect smoothly, creating a continuous texture across words. Some capitals and extenders (such as in forms resembling J, Q, Y, and long-stemmed letters) add pronounced vertical gestures that can become a focal point in short headlines.