Cursive Ihja 2 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, branding, packaging, posters, greeting cards, friendly, casual, playful, retro, lively, handwritten feel, personal tone, display flair, brand warmth, brushy, monoline, rounded, connected, slanted.
A lively, right-slanted cursive with a brush-pen feel and predominantly smooth, rounded terminals. Strokes show gentle pressure variation, with thicker downstrokes and narrower joins, giving the letterforms a soft, inked rhythm rather than crisp calligraphy. The lowercase is highly connected with compact counters and tight turns, while capitals are larger, loopier, and more gestural, creating an expressive start to words. Numerals are similarly handwritten and slightly irregular in width and spacing, reinforcing an organic, written-on-paper texture.
Well-suited to short, expressive text such as headlines, logos, product packaging, posters, social graphics, and invitations or greeting cards. It performs best at display sizes where the connected flow and looped capitals remain clear, and it can add a personable accent when paired with a restrained sans or serif for supporting text.
The overall tone is warm and approachable, with an energetic, informal charm that feels personal and conversational. Its smooth brush motion and buoyant forms suggest a playful, upbeat voice with a mildly nostalgic, sign-and-note quality rather than a formal script.
This design appears intended to mimic quick, confident brush handwriting: smooth, connected, and slightly bouncy, prioritizing personality and momentum over strict uniformity. The emphasis on flowing joins and expressive capitals suggests a display script meant to add warmth and human presence to titles and branded phrases.
Letterforms keep a consistent forward motion with frequent entry/exit strokes that encourage continuous connections. The joins can become dense at smaller sizes, and the compact interior spaces and looping capitals are most effective when given room to breathe. The texture remains cohesive across A–Z, a–z, and numerals, with intentional irregularities that read as natural handwriting.