Cursive Nidaf 12 is a regular weight, very narrow, low contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: social posts, packaging, invitations, café menus, quotes, casual, lively, personal, friendly, brushy, handwritten feel, personal tone, fast rhythm, modern casual, hand-drawn, monoline, slanted, bouncy, loose.
A casual handwritten script with a pronounced rightward slant and a smooth, brush-pen feel. Strokes stay mostly monoline with softly rounded terminals and occasional thickened joins, giving a gently inked look rather than sharp calligraphic contrast. Letterforms are tall and tightly set with compact counters, producing a brisk vertical rhythm; curves are slightly irregular in a natural, hand-drawn way. Capitals are simple and elongated, while lowercase forms keep a small body with long ascenders/descenders and a lightly bouncing baseline.
Well suited for short, expressive text such as social media graphics, packaging accents, invitations, menu headings, and pull quotes where a personal, handwritten voice is desired. It performs best at display sizes where the tight spacing and compact counters can breathe and the brush-like movement is most apparent.
The overall tone is approachable and energetic, like quick handwritten notes or a casual signature. Its lively motion and slightly uneven rhythm feel human and spontaneous rather than polished or formal.
Designed to mimic quick, confident handwriting with a light brush-pen texture and an informal, contemporary feel. The narrow proportions and tall strokes emphasize speed and momentum, aiming for a personal, friendly voice in headlines and branding accents.
Connection behavior appears mixed: many lowercase letters can flow into one another, but the construction still reads clearly as individual pen strokes, with occasional breaks and simplified joins. Numerals are narrow and upright-to-slightly slanted, matching the brisk, handwritten cadence of the alphabet.