Cursive Obkat 3 is a very light, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, very short x-height font.
Keywords: display, headlines, packaging, invitations, quotes, airy, whimsical, delicate, casual, artful, handwritten charm, light elegance, personal tone, decorative caps, monoline, loopy, spidery, tall ascenders, open counters.
A delicate, pen-drawn script with a monoline feel and subtle stroke modulation, built from tall, narrow letterforms and generous white space. Capitals are simplified and slightly decorative, mixing looped entries and occasional cross-strokes, while the lowercase maintains a light, wiry rhythm with small bowls and very tall ascenders/descenders. Curves are open and rounded, joins are intermittent rather than fully continuous, and the overall texture stays airy and uncluttered with slightly irregular, hand-paced spacing.
Best suited to short display settings such as headlines, invitations, packaging accents, and quote graphics where its airy strokes and tall proportions can breathe. It can work for brief subheads or captions when ample size and spacing are available, but its fine structure and narrow forms suggest avoiding dense, small-size text blocks.
The overall tone is playful and intimate, like quick, neat handwriting in a fine-tip pen. Its spindly elegance and looping gestures give it a whimsical, lightly vintage feel without becoming formal.
Designed to capture an elegant, hand-written look with a refined, minimal stroke and a lively, looping cadence. The character set emphasizes distinctive capitals and a light, vertical rhythm to add personality and charm in display typography.
In the sample text, the long ascenders and narrow forms create a distinctive vertical rhythm, and the irregular connection behavior (some letters linking, others breaking) reinforces the handmade character. The numerals follow the same light, handwritten logic, with simple shapes and open forms that keep the color of a line of text bright and spacious.