Cursive Esgoy 9 is a very light, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: wedding, invitations, greeting cards, branding, packaging, airy, elegant, personal, romantic, delicate, signature, elegance, personal tone, soft branding, celebratory, monoline, looping, tall ascenders, loose baseline, high-contrast joins.
A slender, handwritten script with a lightly textured pen stroke and gentle, right-leaning rhythm. Letterforms are built from long, continuous curves with narrow counters, frequent loops, and occasional extended entry/exit strokes that create a flowing line across words. Uppercase characters are tall and open, often drawn with sweeping single-stroke gestures, while lowercase forms stay compact with noticeably long ascenders and descenders that add vertical sparkle. Stroke weight remains generally thin with subtle pressure changes at turns and joins, and spacing feels natural and slightly irregular, reinforcing the hand-drawn character.
Best suited to display use where delicacy is an advantage: wedding suites, invitations, greeting cards, beauty/lifestyle branding, packaging accents, social graphics, and short headlines. It can also work for pull quotes or signatures when set with generous tracking and ample line spacing.
The font conveys a quiet, intimate tone—more like a neat personal note than a formal calligraphic script. Its lightness and looping motion feel graceful and romantic, with a relaxed, contemporary handwritten charm that reads as friendly and refined rather than ornate.
The design appears intended to capture a modern, graceful handwritten signature feel—lightweight, looping, and expressive—while staying clean enough for polished branding and celebratory stationery.
In the samples, many connections are implied through long exit strokes rather than tight, continuous joining, which helps keep words airy and prevents heavy dark spots. The numerals follow the same thin, looping construction and look best when given room to breathe. Overall legibility is stronger at larger sizes where the fine strokes and narrow interiors have space to show.