Script Diruf 8 is a regular weight, narrow, very high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, branding, packaging, headlines, quotes, elegant, whimsical, romantic, vintage, charming, handwritten elegance, decorative display, boutique branding, calligraphic, looped, flourished, bouncy, ornate.
A flowing script with a calligraphic, pen-drawn construction and pronounced thick–thin modulation. Strokes are slender and tapered with rounded terminals, while many letters include generous loops and curled entry/exit strokes. Capitals are tall and narrow with decorative swashes, and the overall rhythm feels lively and slightly bouncy rather than rigidly uniform. The lowercase shows compact bodies with long ascenders/descenders and a mix of open counters and occasional tight turns that create a textured, hand-inked color on the line.
This font works best where personality and elegance are priorities: invitations and announcements, boutique branding, product packaging, and short headlines or pull quotes. It is most effective at display sizes where the fine hairlines and flourishes have room to read clearly.
The tone is refined yet playful—suggesting handwritten formality with a light, flirtatious charm. Its looping details and high-contrast strokes evoke a vintage, boutique feel suited to expressive, personal messaging rather than utilitarian text.
The design appears intended to mimic a confident, formal handwritten script with decorative swashes, delivering an upscale, expressive look while keeping letterforms recognizable in short passages.
Word shapes are highly distinctive thanks to tall verticals, dramatic loops, and varied letter widths, producing an animated texture in running text. Numerals follow the same calligraphic logic, with slender forms and occasional curls that keep them stylistically aligned with the alphabet.