Script Terik 12 is a light, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, packaging, invitations, branding, quotes, elegant, whimsical, vintage, personal, airy, handwritten elegance, decorative caps, personal tone, boutique styling, calligraphic, looping, monolinear, flourished, upright-leaning.
A delicate, calligraphic handwritten script with a consistent, pen-drawn rhythm and gently tapered terminals. Strokes are smooth and mostly even in thickness with subtle contrast, and the letterforms favor narrow proportions with tall ascenders and long, looping descenders. Uppercase characters are more decorative, often built from single continuous gestures with soft swashes and open counters, while the lowercase maintains a lighter, more compact cadence. Numerals are simple and handwritten in feel, matching the same slender stroke and slightly irregular, organic spacing.
This font works best for short-to-medium display text where its loops and narrow rhythm can be appreciated—such as boutique branding, product packaging, invitations, greeting cards, and pull quotes. It can also suit logo wordmarks or title treatments when set with a bit of extra tracking for clarity.
The overall tone feels refined yet informal—like neat handwriting dressed up with a few flourishes. It carries a vintage, boutique sensibility and reads as friendly and personal without becoming playful or cartoonish.
The design appears intended to emulate polished, calligraphy-influenced handwriting with a light touch, combining legible forms with expressive capitals and graceful descenders for a distinctive, boutique-ready voice.
Connections between letters appear intermittent rather than strictly continuous, giving word shapes a lively, hand-set texture. The design leans on generous loops in forms like g, y, and j, and the uppercase set provides the strongest stylistic personality for titles and initials.