Cursive Ifba 1 is a regular weight, very narrow, low contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, social media, greeting cards, casual, energetic, personal, expressive, playful, hand-lettered feel, casual display, expressive writing, quick notes, friendly tone, brushy, looping, slanted, tall, airy.
A lively, pen-and-brush script with a consistent rightward slant and tall, narrow proportions. Strokes are smooth and mostly monoline, with occasional thickened downstrokes and tapered entries/exits that give a brushy cadence. Letterforms lean on long ascenders and descenders, compact small-letter bodies, and frequent looped constructions, producing an airy rhythm with variable spacing and natural handwritten irregularity. Capitals are simplified and slightly flourished, while numerals follow the same slender, slanted, hand-drawn logic.
Best suited to short-to-medium display settings where its handwritten character can be appreciated: posters, social graphics, packaging callouts, invitations, and greeting cards. It can also work for pull quotes or section headers when paired with a calmer text face for body copy.
The overall tone is informal and personable, like quick, confident handwriting used for notes, labels, or headlines. Its looping forms and brisk slant add energy and a touch of playfulness, reading as friendly rather than formal or ceremonial.
Designed to capture the immediacy of hand lettering with a brisk, slanted motion and looped cursive forms. The narrow, tall construction prioritizes expressive word shapes and visual momentum over strict regularity, aiming for a natural, human feel in display typography.
Connections between letters are suggested by joining strokes and consistent exit terminals, but spacing remains intentionally loose enough to keep the texture from becoming a continuous script band. The narrow build and tall extenders create a distinctive vertical sparkle, especially in mixed-case words.