Script Ogden 12 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: logos, packaging, posters, headlines, quotes, retro, casual, friendly, lively, romantic, hand-lettered feel, display impact, brand warmth, vintage flavor, brushy, rounded, slanted, looped, bouncy.
A slanted brush-script with rounded terminals, compact proportions, and a lively, bouncing baseline. Strokes show a clear calligraphic brush behavior—thicker downstrokes and lighter upstrokes—with smooth joins and soft, tapered endings. Letterforms lean forward with frequent loops and swashes, and widths vary noticeably between narrow, compressed shapes and wider, more open forms, giving the text an energetic rhythm.
Best suited for short-form display use where personality matters: logos and wordmarks, packaging labels, posters, social graphics, and expressive headlines. It also works well for pull quotes and invitation-style titling at moderate to large sizes where the brush texture and loops can breathe.
The tone is warm and personable, like quick hand-lettering done with a confident brush. Its playful loops and springy movement evoke a nostalgic, mid-century sign-painting feel while remaining casual and approachable.
Designed to capture the look of fast, confident brush lettering with a polished script silhouette—combining decorative capitals and rhythmic lowercase to deliver an expressive, brandable voice.
Capitals are showy and gestural, often with entry strokes and curled bowls that read as display-oriented. Lowercase forms are more compact and can alternate between connected and loosely separated appearances depending on letter pairs, which contributes to an informal handwritten cadence. Numerals follow the same brush logic, with simple shapes and occasional curved hooks that match the script’s motion.