Calligraphic Yaju 10 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, branding, headlines, packaging, editorial display, elegant, classic, formal, romantic, refined, formal script feel, decorative elegance, handwritten polish, classic styling, swashy, bracketed, teardrop terminals, looped, flowing.
A slanted, calligraphic serif with pronounced thick–thin contrast and smooth, brush-like modulation. Strokes taper into teardrop and wedge terminals, with frequent soft entry/exit strokes that create a gently swashed silhouette without fully connecting letters. Uppercase forms are compact and curvilinear with occasional loops and flourished joins, while lowercase shows rounded bowls, long ascenders, and subtly varying character widths that add a handwritten rhythm. Numerals are similarly italicized and decorative, using curved spines and angled stress consistent with the letters.
Best suited to display settings where its contrast and flourishes can read clearly—wedding and event invitations, beauty or luxury branding, product packaging, and short editorial headlines or pull quotes. It is most effective at larger sizes and in shorter phrases where the swashy details remain distinct.
The font conveys a polished, traditional elegance with a personal, handwritten warmth. Its swashes and high contrast give it a ceremonious, boutique feel—more poetic and romantic than utilitarian.
The design appears intended to emulate formal pen lettering in a consistent, typeset form, balancing readable italic letterforms with tasteful, decorative terminals. It aims to deliver a classic, upscale tone while retaining the organic motion of hand-drawn calligraphy.
Counters tend to be rounded and slightly compressed, and many glyphs emphasize a calligraphic stroke direction (notably in C/G/S and the looped forms). Spacing in text appears intentionally lively, with letter shapes doing much of the visual work through tapered terminals and curved joins.