Cursive Tobiv 4 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, posters, social media, greeting cards, friendly, playful, casual, handmade, retro, human touch, approachability, informality, display impact, brushy, rounded, bouncy, looping, slanted terminals.
A lively handwritten script with smooth, brush-like strokes and softly tapered terminals. Letterforms are tall and compact with a tight overall footprint, while individual glyph widths vary to keep an organic rhythm. Strokes show gentle modulation, with rounded joins and occasional thickened downstrokes that suggest a marker or brush pen. The baseline feel is slightly bouncy, with long ascenders, simple looped descenders, and open counters that help keep the texture readable in short lines.
This font suits logos and boutique branding, packaging labels, café menus, and upbeat posters where a friendly handwritten personality is desired. It also performs well for social graphics, invitations, and short headlines; for long body copy, it’s best used sparingly to keep reading fatigue low.
The tone is upbeat and personable, like quick notes written with a confident marker. Its rounded shapes and springy rhythm give it a cheerful, approachable voice that leans a bit nostalgic without feeling formal.
The design appears intended to capture the spontaneity of cursive handwriting while remaining clean and consistent enough for display use. Its compact proportions and gentle stroke modulation aim to balance charm with legibility, especially in titles and short phrases.
Uppercase forms are simplified and monoline-leaning in spirit, while the lowercase carries more of the cursive energy through looping strokes and tall verticals. Spacing feels intentionally snug, creating a cohesive handwritten word shape, and numerals follow the same rounded, hand-drawn logic for a consistent set.