Cursive Kobuf 1 is a very light, narrow, high contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: wedding, invitations, greetings, brand marks, editorial, elegant, airy, romantic, refined, delicate, signature, formality, ornament, grace, celebration, swashy, looping, calligraphic, monoline, flourished.
A delicate cursive script with a slender, lightly stressed stroke and a consistent rightward slant. Letterforms are built from long, tapering entry and exit strokes, with generous loops and occasional extended ascenders/descenders that create a tall, open silhouette. Uppercase characters show the most ornamentation, featuring sweeping terminals and soft, rounded turns, while lowercase forms stay compact with small counters and a fine, hairline rhythm. Connections are smooth and pen-like, and spacing feels fluid, with noticeable variation in glyph widths and frequent use of long horizontal strokes for letters like T and f.
Well suited for wedding stationery, invitations, greeting cards, and other occasions where a refined handwritten signature style is desired. It can also work for boutique branding, beauty/lifestyle packaging accents, and editorial pull quotes or headers when set at comfortable display sizes with ample whitespace.
The overall tone is graceful and intimate, leaning toward formal charm rather than casual note-taking. Its fine lines and looping swashes evoke a romantic, celebratory feel suited to upscale or ceremonial messaging.
The design appears intended to emulate a fine-point pen script with an emphasis on graceful movement and decorative capitals. Its structure prioritizes elegance and expressive swashes over compact readability, aiming for a signature-like, celebratory presence in short to medium-length text.
The extremely thin strokes and pronounced flourishes make the design sensitive to size and background texture; it reads best where there is room for its long terminals and where stroke breakup won’t occur. Numerals follow the same cursive logic, with angled, streamlined forms that echo the script’s motion.