Cursive Diraf 8 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, posters, social media, packaging, quotes, energetic, expressive, casual, confident, brushy, handmade feel, signature style, display impact, brush texture, informal tone, dry brush, textured, slanted, looping, lively.
A lively, slanted brush-script with narrow, quick-moving letterforms and a distinctly textured stroke. The writing shows high contrast between thick downstrokes and finer connecting strokes, with tapered terminals and occasional dry-brush breakup that reveals white gaps inside heavier marks. Curves are fluid and slightly angular in places, producing a brisk rhythm; ascenders are tall and prominent while the lowercase stays relatively compact. Spacing is moderately tight and the joins are often continuous, creating a coherent handwritten flow in words while still allowing some letters to stand a bit apart like fast marker lettering.
This font suits branding marks, poster headlines, social media graphics, packaging callouts, and short quote treatments where a hand-painted feel is desired. It performs best at display sizes that let the textured stroke and contrast read clearly, and it can add motion and personality to otherwise minimal layouts.
The overall tone feels energetic and informal, with a confident, on-the-go signature quality. The roughened brush texture adds a tactile, human edge that reads as expressive rather than polished, giving the font a contemporary, casual personality.
The design appears intended to emulate fast brush handwriting—combining a flowing cursive structure with dry-brush texture and tapered strokes to create a natural, expressive script for attention-grabbing display use.
Uppercase forms lean toward bold, gestural shapes with simplified construction, while lowercase letters rely on smooth joins, looped forms, and sweeping entry/exit strokes. Numerals follow the same brush logic, with angled stress and open curves that match the script’s momentum.