Cursive Mara 12 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, posters, invitations, social media, casual, energetic, personal, playful, handmade, handwritten realism, expressive display, friendly tone, brush mimicry, brushy, looping, swashy, bouncy, textured.
A lively cursive with a brush-pen feel, built from tapered strokes and visibly pressure-driven curves. Letterforms lean forward with a quick rhythm, mixing smooth connections with occasional lifted joins and swashy entry/exit strokes. Proportions are compact, with small lowercase bodies and frequent tall ascenders and deep descenders that create a vertical, calligraphic silhouette. Terminals often finish in pointed flicks or rounded hooks, and subtle texture/roughness in the stroke edges reinforces the hand-drawn character.
This font suits short-to-medium display copy where a human, handcrafted voice is desirable—logos and brand marks, product packaging, headlines, quotes, and event materials such as invitations. It can also work for social posts and lifestyle graphics when generous line spacing is available to accommodate the long ascenders/descenders and swashier capitals.
The overall tone is informal and expressive, like fast, confident handwriting made with a flexible marker. It reads friendly and personable, with enough flourish to feel celebratory without becoming overly formal.
The design appears intended to mimic natural cursive written quickly with a flexible brush tool, balancing readability with expressive gesture. Its compact lowercase and animated capitals suggest a focus on impactful, personable display typography rather than dense long-form text.
Uppercase forms show more dramatic curves and occasional decorative loops, while the lowercase maintains a consistent cursive flow with bouncy baseline movement. Numerals match the same brushed construction and slanted stance, keeping the set visually unified for mixed text settings.