Cursive Duze 3 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: wedding, invitations, branding, packaging, headlines, elegant, romantic, vintage, refined, lively, graceful script, signature style, ornamental caps, classic flair, swashy, looping, calligraphic, monoline-leaning, highly slanted.
A highly slanted cursive with smooth, continuous strokes and an even, pen-like rhythm. Letterforms are narrow and elongated, with compact lowercase bodies and long ascenders/descenders that create a tall, airy texture. Strokes show gentle thick–thin modulation, with rounded joins, tapered terminals, and frequent loops; capitals feature prominent entry/exit swashes that extend horizontally. Overall spacing feels tight and flowing, with a slight rightward momentum and occasional flourish-driven width changes in the caps and select lowercase forms.
Best suited to short-to-medium display settings where its swashes and steep slant can breathe—wedding suites, invitations, beauty/fashion branding, boutique packaging, and elegant headlines. It also works well for signatures, pull quotes, and decorative subheads, but is less appropriate for dense paragraphs or small UI text where the tight, looping forms may reduce clarity.
The tone is polished and expressive, blending formal calligraphic gestures with an approachable handwritten feel. Its looping forms and swashy capitals read as romantic and vintage-leaning, suited to graceful, personal messaging rather than utilitarian text.
The design appears intended to emulate a fluent, practiced cursive hand with a touch of classic calligraphy—prioritizing graceful motion, ornamental capitals, and a refined script texture for expressive display typography.
The uppercase set carries much of the personality through extended lead-in strokes and generous curves, while the lowercase remains compact and quick, increasing the contrast between headline initials and running script. Numerals follow the same cursive, lightly calligraphic logic and appear designed to harmonize with wordmarks and short phrases.