Cursive Wiky 12 is a regular weight, wide, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, branding, headlines, invitations, packaging, elegant, expressive, vintage, dramatic, fluid, handmade feel, signature style, display impact, calligraphic flair, brushy, calligraphic, slanted, looping, tapered.
A slanted, brush-pen cursive with pronounced thick–thin modulation and tapered terminals. Strokes show quick, pressure-driven transitions, with occasional roughened edges and ink-like pooling that add a drawn, tactile feel. Letterforms lean forward with long ascenders and descenders, compact internal counters, and a rhythmic, slightly bouncy baseline. Width is uneven in a natural way, with broad capitals and tighter lowercase contributing to an animated texture in words.
This face works best for display settings where its contrast and sweeping cursive can breathe—posters, branding marks, packaging callouts, and event or wedding-style invitations. It can also add personality to short quotes or title treatments, especially when used at larger sizes with generous spacing.
The overall tone is elegant yet energetic, balancing a refined calligraphic flourish with an improvised, handwritten immediacy. It evokes a vintage, personal voice—confident, dramatic, and a little theatrical—suited to statements that want to feel authored rather than typeset.
The design appears intended to replicate expressive brush calligraphy in a consistent, repeatable typographic form, prioritizing motion, contrast, and flourish. It aims to deliver a handcrafted signature-like impression while remaining cohesive across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals.
Capitals are especially flourishy and attention-grabbing, while lowercase forms remain relatively narrow and fast-moving, helping maintain momentum in longer phrases. Numerals follow the same brush contrast and slant, keeping the texture consistent across mixed content, though the style favors display over small-size clarity.