Cursive Wabu 3 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, headlines, branding, social media, expressive, casual, dynamic, brushy, energetic, handmade feel, bold emphasis, quick lettering, casual voice, textured, spontaneous, angular, slanted, painterly.
A slanted, brush-pen style script with visibly modulated strokes and a textured, dry-brush edge in places. Letterforms are compact and relatively narrow, with sharp entry/exit terminals and a quick, rhythmic stroke flow that varies slightly from glyph to glyph. Capitals are bold and gestural with sweeping diagonals and occasional exaggerated curves, while lowercase maintains a tight, handwritten cadence with a modest x-height and lively ascenders/descenders. Connections are suggested through cursive construction and flowing joins, but spacing and stroke endings retain a hand-drawn, slightly irregular finish.
Best suited to display settings where a handmade voice is desirable—posters, product packaging, brand marks, short headlines, and social content. It can also work for pull quotes or titles when set with enough size and spacing to let the textured stroke edges and lively slant remain clear.
The overall tone feels informal and personal, like fast marker or brush lettering used for emphasis. Its energetic slant and high-contrast strokes convey motion and attitude, leaning more expressive than polished, with a slightly rugged, handmade charm.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of brush handwriting in a controlled, repeatable font: expressive strokes, compact proportions, and a cursive flow that reads quickly while retaining a distinctly human, hand-drawn feel.
The figures share the same brisk, handwritten logic, with open counters and swift curves that keep them readable while preserving the brush texture. The sample text shows consistent rhythm across words, with capitals providing strong visual punctuation and a naturally varying baseline that reinforces the hand-rendered character.