Cursive Ohba 6 is a very light, very narrow, low contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: greeting cards, social media, invitations, quotes, packaging, airy, friendly, casual, playful, delicate, personal tone, expressive display, casual elegance, handwritten charm, monoline, looping, bouncy, tall ascenders, open counters.
A monoline handwritten script with tall, slender proportions and a gently right-slanted cursive rhythm. Strokes are smooth and continuous, with frequent looped entrances and exits that create soft connections in text. Capitals are large and expressive, often built from single flowing gestures with elongated verticals and rounded bowls. Lowercase forms are compact with a notably small x-height, while ascenders and descenders extend high and low, giving lines a buoyant, vertical emphasis. Numerals follow the same light, rounded, handwritten construction with simple, open shapes.
Well-suited for short to medium display text where a personal, handwritten voice is desired—greeting cards, invitations, quotes, social graphics, and light lifestyle branding. It can also work for packaging or labels when used at comfortable sizes with generous leading to accommodate the tall extenders.
The overall tone feels lighthearted and personal, like neat journaling or a quick handwritten note. Its looping forms and tall, airy spacing convey a friendly, approachable warmth, leaning more whimsical than formal.
The design appears intended to deliver an elegant-but-casual handwritten script that reads smoothly while retaining the charm of pen-drawn variation. Its emphasis on tall capitals and looping connections suggests a focus on expressive headlines and personal messaging rather than dense body copy.
In running text the joins are generally consistent, but individual letters keep a hand-drawn individuality, especially in the more decorative capitals. The long ascenders, descenders, and occasional extended cross-strokes add visual flourish and can influence line spacing in denser layouts.