Cursive Osdef 14 is a very light, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invites, greeting cards, quotes, packaging, social posts, airy, delicate, whimsical, romantic, casual, personal note, elegant script, signature feel, friendly display, light accent, monoline, loopy, tall ascenders, long descenders, open counters.
A fine, monoline handwritten script with a tall, slender build and generous vertical rhythm. Strokes are smooth and lightly pressured, with occasional tapered terminals and soft looped joins that keep the texture flowing without becoming dense. Uppercase forms are larger and more gestural, often built from sweeping ovals and long entry/exit strokes, while lowercase stays compact with a notably small x-height and pronounced ascenders/descenders. Spacing and widths vary naturally across letters, contributing to a lively, hand-drawn cadence.
Best suited for short to medium display lines where its delicate strokes and expressive capitals can be appreciated—such as invitations, greeting cards, quote graphics, boutique packaging, and social media headlines. It can also work for light branding accents or signatures, especially when set with comfortable tracking and ample line spacing.
The overall tone feels lighthearted and intimate, like neat journaling or a personal note written with a fine pen. Its looping capitals and soft curves add a romantic, slightly whimsical character, while the restrained stroke weight keeps it calm and understated.
Designed to capture the spontaneity of elegant pen handwriting in a clean, modern way, prioritizing a graceful rhythm and charming, loop-driven capitals for expressive display use.
The sample text shows a clear contrast between expressive capitals and minimal lowercase, making capitalization a major driver of style. Numerals and punctuation match the same thin, handwritten line quality, preserving the airy color in mixed content.