Cursive Ekdal 9 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, invitations, greeting cards, packaging, social media, casual, friendly, playful, romantic, handmade, personal touch, modern script, decorative caps, casual elegance, looping, bouncy, fluid, monolinear, tall ascenders.
A lively cursive script with a smooth, pen-drawn rhythm and gently tapered stroke endings. Letterforms are compact and tall, with narrow proportions and long ascenders/descenders that create an airy, vertical texture. Strokes show subtle modulation and rounded terminals, with frequent entry/exit strokes that encourage connection in lowercase. Capitals are more decorative and looped, standing slightly apart from the tighter lowercase forms, while numerals keep the same handwritten softness and rounded shaping.
This font works best for short to medium display settings such as boutique branding, invitations, greeting cards, packaging labels, and social posts where a personal touch is desired. It can also be used for pull quotes or headings when paired with a simpler text face for body copy.
The overall tone feels informal and personable, like neat everyday handwriting with a touch of flourish. Its looping capitals and buoyant joins give it an inviting, upbeat character suited to warm, human-facing messaging rather than strict formality.
The design appears intended to capture a clean, modern handwritten look—legible and consistent, but still visibly human—by combining narrow, upright-leaning cursive construction with decorative, looped capitals for emphasis.
Connectivity varies by letter, producing a natural handwritten cadence where some pairs join seamlessly and others break for clarity. The narrow set width and tall forms can make word shapes elegant in short lines, while longer passages may benefit from generous line spacing to accommodate descenders and loops.