Cursive Duku 5 is a very light, normal width, low contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, greeting cards, signatures, packaging, headlines, elegant, personal, airy, graceful, romantic, signature look, decorative script, personal tone, elegant flourish, monoline, looping, swashy, right-leaning, spidery.
A delicate, monoline script with a pronounced rightward slant and long, tapered entry and exit strokes. Letterforms are narrow and slightly irregular in width, with smooth, continuous curves and frequent loop constructions in both caps and lowercase. Ascenders are tall and prominent while the x-height reads small, giving the text an open, airy vertical rhythm. Capitals are more embellished than the lowercase, featuring restrained swashes and calligraphic turns that remain consistent across the alphabet.
Best suited to short-form applications where its graceful movement can be appreciated—wedding or event invitations, greeting cards, signature-style branding, boutique packaging, and elegant headings. It works well when given generous size and spacing, and may be less effective for dense paragraphs or small UI text.
The overall tone feels intimate and refined, like neat, fast handwriting dressed up for display. Its light stroke and flowing connections convey gentleness and warmth, leaning toward romantic and vintage-leaning stationery aesthetics rather than bold informality.
This font appears designed to capture a polished, handwritten signature look with subtle flourish—prioritizing fluid rhythm, slender strokes, and expressive capitals for decorative, personal-forward typography.
In sample text, the joins are generally smooth but the thin strokes and tight counters can reduce clarity at smaller sizes. Numerals match the script’s understated, handwritten character and sit comfortably alongside the letters without becoming overly decorative.