Script Afkal 2 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, very short x-height font.
Keywords: greeting cards, packaging, quotes, children’s, social posts, playful, whimsical, friendly, casual, charming, human touch, casual elegance, approachability, playfulness, monoline-leaning, looped, bouncy, rounded, hand-drawn.
A tall, lightly irregular handwritten script with a bouncy baseline and narrow overall footprint. Strokes feel pen-drawn and mostly smooth, with gentle swelling at curves and occasional tapering at terminals. Capitals are simplified but expressive, often built from single continuous gestures and open counters, while lowercase forms use compact bowls, looped ascenders/descenders, and soft, rounded joins. Spacing and widths vary from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an organic rhythm; numerals follow the same handwritten logic with open, rounded shapes and slight asymmetry.
Well suited to short, expressive text where a friendly handwritten voice is desired—greeting cards, invitations, packaging callouts, and social graphics. It can also work for headings or pull quotes in lifestyle or children-oriented design, where its narrow, tall forms and lively loops add character without heavy ornament.
The font reads as personable and upbeat, with an informal polish that suggests handwritten notes made with care. Its looping forms and springy rhythm give it a light, storybook-like warmth rather than a strict calligraphic formality.
Designed to emulate a neat, personable handwritten script with consistent rhythm and decorative looping, offering an approachable alternative to more formal calligraphy. The intent appears to balance legibility with charm through simplified letterforms, soft curves, and small, expressive irregularities.
The character set shown mixes partially connected behavior: many letters are drawn with cursive structures, but connections are not uniformly continuous across all shapes. Ascenders and descenders are prominent, creating a lively vertical cadence, and the most distinctive features are the looped strokes (notably in letters like g, j, y, and some capitals) and the gently waved cross-strokes and terminals.