Cursive Efdey 16 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, greeting cards, social posts, packaging, café menus, casual, friendly, lively, personal, airy, personal note, casual branding, expressive display, handwritten realism, monoline, looping, bouncy, slanted, brushlike.
A slanted, pen-written script with smooth, continuous curves and lightly tapered terminals that suggest quick hand movement. Strokes keep an even, ink-pen consistency while showing subtle swelling on turns, with open counters and rounded joins. Letterforms are narrow and tall, with compact lowercase bodies and comparatively prominent ascenders and descenders, creating a light, airy texture across lines. Capitals are simplified and flowing rather than ornate, often beginning with a gentle lead-in stroke and ending in a clean, lifted finish.
This font works well for short to medium-length display copy where a human, personable voice is desired—such as invitations, greeting cards, lifestyle branding, packaging callouts, and social media graphics. It can also suit headings or pull quotes when paired with a simpler text face for body copy.
The overall tone is warm and conversational, like a neat personal note written with a felt-tip or gel pen. Its buoyant rhythm and looping forms give it an approachable, upbeat character that feels informal without becoming messy.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of everyday cursive writing—legible, quick, and expressive—while maintaining enough consistency to set clean lines of text in branding and promotional materials.
Spacing appears intentionally variable in a handwritten way, helping the text feel natural and animated. The numeral set follows the same cursive logic with curved entries and exits, keeping the figures stylistically consistent with the letters.