Cursive Vaka 13 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, branding, packaging, album art, social media, energetic, expressive, casual, handmade, urban, brush realism, signature feel, high impact, human warmth, expressive texture, brushy, textured, dry stroke, angular, compact.
A fast, brush-pen script with a pronounced rightward slant and lively, variable rhythm. Strokes are thick and dense with visible dry-brush texture, creating rough edges and occasional ink breaks that feel deliberately imperfect. Letterforms mix rounded loops with sharper, angled joins, and the overall proportions feel compact through the lowercase with relatively short extenders and a tight, punchy silhouette. Spacing and widths vary organically, reinforcing a hand-drawn flow rather than mechanical consistency.
Best suited to short, impactful copy where a bold handwritten voice is the main visual feature—posters, headlines, logo wordmarks, product packaging, and promotional graphics. It can work for brief quotes or captions at larger sizes, especially when paired with a cleaner text face for body copy.
The font conveys an energetic, informal tone with a gritty, streetwise edge. Its textured strokes and swift movement feel personal and spontaneous—more like a marker or brush signature than polished calligraphy. Overall, it reads confident, expressive, and slightly rugged.
This design appears intended to capture the speed and character of brush lettering in a font format, emphasizing momentum, texture, and personality over refinement. It aims to deliver a distinctive handwritten signature feel that stands out quickly in display settings.
In continuous text, the connected cursive flow is strong, but the heavy texture and compact forms can cause darker clusters where strokes overlap. The numerals and capitals maintain the same brushy attitude, keeping the set visually cohesive for display-oriented use.