Cursive Esgom 8 is a very light, very narrow, high contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: wedding, invitations, greeting cards, quotes, branding, elegant, airy, romantic, delicate, whimsical, signature look, formal stationery, delicate display, romantic tone, monoline, loopy, flourished, calligraphic, slanted.
A delicate cursive script with fine, hairline strokes and a pronounced rightward slant. Letterforms are built from smooth, looping curves with occasional long entry/exit strokes and soft, tapered terminals that mimic a light pen touch. Uppercase characters feature taller proportions and gentle flourishes, while lowercase forms are compact with a restrained, petite body and slender ascenders/descenders. Spacing feels open and rhythmic, and the numerals follow the same graceful, handwritten logic with thin contours and simple curves.
This font is well suited to wedding and event stationery, invitations, greeting cards, and short quote treatments where a gentle handwritten voice is desired. It also works nicely for boutique branding accents—such as logos, packaging signatures, and social headers—especially when paired with a simple serif or sans for body text.
The overall tone is refined and intimate, reading as personal and graceful rather than bold or loud. Its airy line quality and looping motion give it a romantic, stationery-like feel with a subtle whimsical charm.
The design appears intended to emulate a refined, hand-written signature style: light, fluid, and ornamental without heavy texture. Its emphasis on looping curves, tall capitals, and airy spacing suggests use for elegant display settings rather than dense reading.
Because the strokes are extremely fine, the design reads best when given enough size and contrast; at smaller settings the light details and long joins can visually soften. Capitals are more expressive than the lowercase, making initial letters particularly decorative in titles and names.