Cursive Raray 8 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, invitations, social posts, headlines, playful, friendly, casual, charming, lively, handwritten warmth, modern script, signature look, expressive display, brushy, calligraphic, looping, bouncy, hand-drawn.
A lively cursive hand with a brush-pen feel, built from sweeping, mostly continuous strokes and a forward slant. Strokes alternate between hairline entries and heavier downstrokes, creating a crisp high-contrast rhythm. Letterforms are tall and narrow with long ascenders and descenders, rounded bowls, and frequent loops and soft terminals; capitals are more gestural and showy, while lowercase maintains a consistent, flowing cadence. Spacing is moderately open for a script, keeping words readable even as strokes connect and overlap.
This font is well suited to short, expressive text such as logos, product names, labels, invitations, greeting cards, and social media graphics. It also works nicely for headlines and pull quotes where a friendly handwritten voice is desired, especially in print or high-resolution digital settings.
The overall tone is upbeat and personable, like quick confident handwriting used for notes, packaging, or social copy. Its bouncy curves and expressive capitals add a lighthearted, handmade charm without feeling messy.
The design appears intended to capture a polished modern handwriting look—smooth, connected, and energetic—while retaining the spontaneous contrast and taper of a brush pen. It balances decorative capitals and rhythmic lowercase to provide a recognizably personal signature style for display typography.
Numbers and punctuation follow the same brushy contrast and italic movement, with simple, handwritten constructions that match the alphabet. The sample text suggests good word-shape clarity at display and subhead sizes, while the thin hairlines and delicate joins will be more sensitive at very small sizes or on low-resolution outputs.