Cursive Ligid 5 is a very light, very narrow, high contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, wedding, branding, logotypes, quotes, elegant, airy, romantic, refined, expressive, signature style, fine-ink script, decorative caps, personal tone, monoline feel, hairline, looping, swashy, delicate.
A delicate, right-slanted script with hairline strokes and an airy, calligraphic rhythm. Letterforms are built from long, sweeping curves and occasional looped entries, with tall ascenders and descenders that create a pronounced vertical cadence. Strokes appear predominantly monoline at small sizes, with subtle modulation and sharp, tapered terminals that mimic a pointed-pen or fine-ink gesture. Spacing is open and the connections are loose—some characters link fluidly while others read as lightly separated—giving text a quick, handwritten continuity without becoming fully joined everywhere.
This font is best suited to short-to-medium display settings such as invitations, announcements, greeting cards, beauty and lifestyle branding, packaging accents, and signature-style logotypes. It also works well for pull quotes and headings where its elegant rhythm can be appreciated, rather than dense paragraph text.
The overall tone is graceful and intimate, balancing refinement with a casual handwritten spontaneity. It conveys a romantic, boutique feel—light, tasteful, and a bit dramatic—suited to moments where a personal signature-like voice is desired.
The design appears intended to emulate a refined handwritten script with a fine-ink touch, prioritizing elegance and expressive capitals over utilitarian text readability. Its exaggerated vertical strokes and long curves suggest a focus on creating distinctive word shapes for decorative, personal-feeling typography.
Capitals are especially expressive, featuring broad entry curves and occasional swashes that can dominate the line and shape word silhouettes. Numerals follow the same slender, flowing construction, reading more like penned figures than engineered text forms.