Cursive Duro 3 is a light, narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: wedding, invitations, branding, logotypes, packaging, elegant, romantic, airy, personal, refined, flourish, signature, elegance, handwriting, calligraphic, looping, flowing, swashy, slanted.
A flowing script with a pronounced rightward slant, long ascenders/descenders, and frequent looped forms. Strokes feel pen-drawn with tapered entries and exits and a smooth, continuous rhythm, while letter widths vary naturally, creating a lively word texture. Capitals are notably swashy and open, with generous curves and extended lead-in/terminal strokes that give headings a graceful silhouette. Lowercase forms stay compact relative to the tall extenders, contributing to a delicate, elevated baseline-to-ascender proportion and a light overall color on the page.
Best suited to display use where its swashy capitals and looped connections can be appreciated—wedding stationery, invitations, boutique branding, product packaging, and short headlines. It works well for names, signatures, and accent text paired with a restrained serif or sans for supporting copy.
The tone is graceful and intimate, leaning toward romantic, formal-leaning handwriting rather than casual note-taking. Its airy stroke weight and sweeping capitals suggest ceremony and polish, while the organic variability keeps it personable and warm.
Designed to mimic refined penmanship with a calligraphic flourish, prioritizing expressive movement, elegant capitals, and a light, graceful page color for premium, celebratory typography.
The script emphasizes continuous connections and long, sweeping terminals, which can increase elegance but also makes spacing and legibility more dependent on size and context. Numerals follow the same handwritten logic, with simple, slightly cursive forms that blend comfortably with the letterforms.