Cursive Yedi 5 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, branding, packaging, headlines, social media, brushy, energetic, casual, expressive, urban, handwritten feel, brush texture, fast lettering, display impact, casual voice, dry brush, textured, angular, lively, hand-inked.
A slanted brush-script with visibly dry, textured stroke edges and frequent tapering at stroke starts and finishes. Letterforms mix rounded loops with sharper, flicked terminals, creating a lively rhythm and variable stroke widths that feel written rather than constructed. Capitals are tall and assertive with simplified, marker-like structures, while lowercase forms show compact bowls and quick joins that suggest fast pen movement. Overall spacing is tight and the silhouettes are narrow, giving words a condensed, vertical momentum.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, brand marks, packaging callouts, and social media graphics where the brush texture can be appreciated. It also works well for headlines, album/cover treatments, and event promotions that benefit from a handmade, energetic voice; for longer passages, generous size and leading help maintain clarity.
The font conveys an informal, energetic tone with a hand-painted immediacy. Its roughened brush texture and quick, gestural strokes read as bold and contemporary, with a slightly rugged, streetwise character. The overall feel is personable and spontaneous rather than polished or delicate.
The design appears intended to emulate quick brush lettering with a dry-brush edge—capturing speed, pressure changes, and imperfect ink flow while maintaining enough consistency for repeatable typesetting. It balances legibility with expressive texture to deliver a contemporary handwritten look for display typography.
Texture is a defining feature: many strokes show broken edges and uneven ink distribution, which adds character at display sizes but can soften fine details when set small. Numerals follow the same brush rhythm and tapering, keeping headings and short callouts visually consistent.