Cursive Duly 1 is a very light, normal width, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, branding, packaging, quotes, headlines, elegant, airy, personal, refined, romantic, signature feel, elegant script, personal tone, display focus, handwritten polish, monoline, flowing, looping, slanted, delicate.
A delicate, slanted script with an airy, monoline feel and gently tapering terminals. Strokes follow a calligraphic rhythm with smooth curves, occasional looped entries and exits, and long, sweeping ascenders and descenders. Letterforms are narrow to moderate in footprint with generous white space, and the baseline movement feels lightly buoyant rather than rigidly mechanical. Capitals are larger and more gestural, while lowercase forms stay compact, with small counters and tight internal space in letters like a, e, and s.
Best suited for short display settings where its fine strokes and sweeping forms can stay clear—wedding materials, greeting cards, boutique branding, product packaging, and pull quotes. It can also work for lightweight headings or signature-style name treatments, while extended body copy may require larger sizes and generous spacing for comfort.
The overall tone is graceful and intimate, evoking quick, confident handwriting polished for display. Its light touch and looping motion give it a romantic, understated character that feels more like a personal signature than a formal inscription.
Designed to capture the feel of refined cursive handwriting—fluid, quick, and elegant—while maintaining consistent proportions and a clean stroke so it reproduces well in print and on screen. The prominent capitals and long extenders suggest an emphasis on expressive, signature-like wordmarks and headline phrases.
Connections are present in running text, but not every letter appears fully joined, creating a natural hand-written cadence. The numerals match the script’s light stroke and slant, keeping the same minimal, flowing construction for a cohesive texture in mixed content.