Cursive Puri 8 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, social posts, quotes, greeting cards, friendly, casual, playful, warm, handmade, handwritten feel, approachability, informality, display focus, personal tone, monoline, bouncy, rounded, looped, brushy.
A lively cursive with a fluid, handwritten rhythm and gently right-leaning forms. Strokes are smooth and mostly monoline with subtle pressure changes at turns, creating softly tapered joins and rounded terminals. Proportions are compact with relatively small lowercase bodies and tall ascenders/descenders, plus a buoyant baseline that adds bounce. Letterforms favor open bowls and simple, readable construction, with occasional looped entries/exits and modest swashes that keep the texture airy rather than dense.
Well-suited to short-to-medium display settings where a human touch is desired: logos and boutique branding, packaging callouts, invitations, greeting cards, social graphics, and pull-quote treatments. It can also work for headings and subheads when paired with a simpler text face to maintain clarity.
The overall tone is approachable and upbeat, like quick, confident handwriting used to label, sign, or annotate. Its looseness and rhythmic bounce feel personable and conversational, leaning more charming than formal.
Designed to capture the feel of natural cursive handwriting with a clean, polished finish—prioritizing warmth, speed, and everyday friendliness over strict calligraphic formality.
Spacing appears naturally irregular in a way that supports the handwritten character, and the connections between letters are implied rather than rigidly uniform, helping it stay legible in mixed-case text. Numerals match the same informal, rounded stroke logic for consistent color in short number strings.