Cursive Madu 3 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, greeting cards, branding, packaging, quotations, elegant, romantic, vintage, personal, expressive, handwritten charm, decorative display, premium feel, expressive script, swashy, calligraphic, looping, slanted, fluid.
A slanted, calligraphic script with flowing, semi-connected letterforms and generous entry/exit strokes that create an easy cursive rhythm. Strokes show pronounced thick–thin modulation, with tapered terminals and occasional teardrop-like joins that mimic a broad-nib or pointed-pen feel. Capitals are more ornamental than the lowercase, with extended lead-in curves and soft, rounded forms, while the lowercase keeps a compact body and long ascenders/descenders that add vertical elegance. Spacing and letter widths vary naturally from glyph to glyph, reinforcing a handwritten cadence rather than a rigid geometric structure.
Well-suited for wedding and event invitations, greeting cards, and short headline phrases where the swashy movement can be appreciated. It also works for boutique branding, product packaging, and pull quotes or signatures, especially when paired with a restrained serif or sans for supporting text.
The font reads as refined and personable—more formal than casual handwriting, but still warm and human. Its swashy capitals and high-contrast strokes give it a classic, slightly vintage tone suited to expressive, sentimental messaging.
The design appears intended to evoke a pen-written cursive with a polished, decorative finish—balancing legibility with expressive motion. Its contrasting strokes and embellished capitals suggest a focus on premium, celebratory, or romantic display use rather than extended body copy.
In text, the strong slant and connecting strokes help words feel continuous, while the compact lowercase body can make longer passages feel dense at small sizes. Numerals follow the same cursive, italicized logic with curved forms and tapered ends, aligning well with the overall script color.