Cursive Uplep 1 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, headlines, social media, invitations, casual, lively, personal, expressive, romantic, handwritten feel, expressive display, signature style, modern script, brushy, looping, slanted, bouncy, calligraphic.
A flowing, script-like hand with a pronounced rightward slant and brisk, brush-pen rhythm. Strokes show strong thick–thin modulation, with tapered entries and exits and occasional ink-like swell on curves and downstrokes. Letterforms are narrow overall with elastic spacing and variable internal widths, creating a lively, uneven cadence. Capitals are larger and more gestural, featuring long lead-in strokes and occasional looped or crossed structures, while lowercase maintains a compact body with short x-height and frequent ascenders/descenders that add vertical sparkle.
Best suited to short to medium display settings where its contrast and lively slant can be appreciated—logos, boutique branding, packaging accents, social posts, quotes, and invitation-style headlines. It can also work for subheads or pull quotes when given sufficient size and spacing to accommodate its sweeping terminals and variable widths.
The font reads as friendly and spontaneous, like fast handwriting done with a flexible pen. Its energetic movement and high-contrast stroke behavior give it a stylish, slightly dramatic tone without feeling formal or rigid. Overall it suggests personable messaging, modern boutique charm, and an expressive signature feel.
Designed to capture the immediacy of handwritten brush script while maintaining consistent proportions and a recognizable alphabet for repeatable typesetting. The emphasis appears to be on expressive motion, elegant thick–thin contrast, and attention-grabbing caps that add personality to titles and branded phrases.
Connectivity appears intermittent rather than fully continuous, with many letters designed to sit closely and suggest joining in words while still retaining individual counters and clear stroke endings. Curves and bowls are generous and rounded, and several glyphs rely on long cross-strokes and sweeping terminals that can extend into neighboring space, especially in capitals.