Cursive Atdiy 8 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: social graphics, packaging, posters, quotes, invites, casual, friendly, handmade, playful, conversational, handwritten feel, informal voice, display emphasis, personal warmth, brushy, rounded, bouncy, organic, lively.
A slanted, brush-pen style script with rounded terminals and softly tapered stroke endings. Letterforms show lively, handwritten modulation with occasional thicker downstrokes and lighter upstrokes, plus subtle wobble that keeps the rhythm human rather than mechanical. The set mixes flowing connections in the lowercase with more separated, gestural capitals, and the overall texture is compact with tight internal spacing and a quick, linear movement.
Well-suited for short-to-medium display text where a friendly handwritten voice is desired, such as social media graphics, packaging labels, café menus, posters, greeting cards, and quote-based designs. It can also work for headings and pull quotes when paired with a simpler text face for longer reading.
The font conveys an upbeat, approachable tone—like quick notes written with a marker or brush pen. Its energetic slant and bouncy curves feel informal and personable, lending a warm, everyday charm rather than a formal calligraphic mood.
The design appears intended to emulate quick, confident brush handwriting with a consistent slant and an easy, informal flow. Its goal is expressiveness and approachability, prioritizing personality and motion over strict uniformity.
Capitals are simplified and stroke-led, often resembling swift single-pass constructions, while lowercase forms lean into looped ascenders/descenders and smooth joins. Counters tend to be small and rounded, and the numerals keep the same handwritten logic with slightly irregular widths and open, airy curves in forms like 2, 3, and 5.