Cursive Kihi 1 is a very light, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: wedding, invitations, branding, logotypes, packaging, elegant, airy, romantic, refined, expressive, signature feel, personal tone, formal flourish, light elegance, calligraphic, monoline, looping, slanted, delicate.
A delicate cursive script with a pronounced rightward slant and hairline strokes throughout. Letterforms are built from long, sweeping entry and exit strokes, with frequent looped constructions in capitals and select lowercase, creating a continuous, ribbon-like rhythm. Contrast appears mainly through stroke overlap and directional pressure rather than true thick–thin modeling, keeping the overall color light and open. Spacing is generous and the forms are narrow, with compact counters and a restrained, understated baseline presence.
Well-suited to wedding suites, greeting cards, beauty and boutique branding, and other applications where a signature-like script adds elegance. It performs best at display sizes where the fine strokes, loops, and long joins have room to breathe, and where overlapping swashes won’t crowd adjacent letters.
The font conveys a graceful, intimate tone—more like quick, practiced signature writing than formal engraving. Its flowing loops and elongated strokes feel romantic and slightly dramatic, while the thin lines keep it soft and understated.
The design appears intended to mimic refined, fast cursive handwriting with a strong emphasis on fluid connections and expressive capitals, prioritizing grace and personality over utilitarian text clarity.
Capitals are especially expressive, often formed with large oval loops and extended swashes that can dominate the line when set at larger sizes. Lowercase remains comparatively small with a subtle rhythm, and numerals follow the same slim, handwritten logic with simple, lightly curved forms.