Cursive Darip 1 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: social posts, packaging, quotes, greeting cards, craft branding, friendly, casual, playful, handmade, warm, handwritten feel, approachability, informal voice, expressive display, brushy, rounded, loopy, bouncy, informal.
A lively handwritten script with a brush-pen feel, showing slightly slanted forms, rounded terminals, and visibly tapered stroke endings. Lettershapes are compact and narrow overall, with a bouncy baseline and variable rhythm that alternates between tighter and more open forms. Strokes have moderate contrast with soft swelling in curves and occasional thicker downstrokes, while joins and connections appear simplified rather than fully continuous. Capitals are tall and gestural, and the lowercase maintains a modest x-height with prominent ascenders and descenders that add vertical energy.
Works well for short headlines, pull quotes, packaging callouts, greeting cards, and social media graphics where a personal, handmade voice is desired. It’s especially effective in branding for crafts, cafés, lifestyle products, and upbeat editorial accents, and pairs best with a clean sans for body text.
The font reads as friendly and personable, with an easygoing, conversational tone. Its imperfect, hand-drawn regularity and upbeat rhythm give it a playful, approachable character suitable for informal messaging and human-centered branding.
Likely drawn to emulate quick brush handwriting: expressive, compact, and friendly, with enough consistency to feel like a cohesive typeface while preserving the natural variation of pen-written forms.
Counters are generally open and rounded, supporting legibility at display sizes, while the energetic stroke modulation and baseline bounce add texture in longer lines. Numerals follow the same handwritten logic, with simple, quick forms that match the alphabet’s casual momentum.