Script Afdam 9 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, upright, very short x-height font.
Keywords: greeting cards, invitations, branding, packaging, quotes, playful, whimsical, friendly, casual, handmade, handwritten charm, display lettering, personal tone, stylized cursive, monoline feel, bouncy baseline, looping descenders, tall ascenders, quirky caps.
A tall, slender handwritten script with a lively, bouncy rhythm and pronounced stroke contrast. Letterforms are narrow and vertically oriented, with long ascenders and deep, looping descenders that create an airy texture in text. Strokes taper into fine terminals and swell into heavier downstrokes, while joins are mostly smooth and cursive but not rigidly connected, preserving an informal drawn-by-hand character. Capitals are simplified and open, often built from a few confident strokes with gentle curves and occasional flourish-like hooks.
This font suits short-to-medium display copy where a friendly handwritten voice is desired—greeting cards, invitations, boutique branding, labels, and packaging. It also works well for quotes, headers, and social graphics, especially when paired with a simple sans or serif for supporting text.
The overall tone is lighthearted and personable, with a storybook charm that feels approachable rather than formal. Its narrow proportions and looping extenders add a whimsical, slightly eccentric energy that reads as handmade and expressive.
The design appears intended to mimic a neat, stylized hand with a calligraphic pen-like contrast, prioritizing personality and vertical elegance over strict uniformity. Its narrow stance and exaggerated extenders suggest a display-focused script meant to add charm and motion to titles and highlighted phrases.
Spacing appears intentionally loose for such narrow forms, helping counters stay open and keeping lines readable despite the very small lowercase body height. Numerals and capitals share the same calligraphic contrast and tapered terminals, giving mixed-case settings a cohesive, doodled consistency.