Cursive Nabaj 12 is a regular weight, very narrow, low contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, greeting cards, packaging, quotes, social posts, friendly, casual, playful, folksy, personal, handwritten feel, signature look, informal display, friendly tone, monoline, rounded, bouncy, looping, whimsical.
A lively handwritten script with a monoline, low-contrast stroke and a consistent rightward slant. Letterforms are built from rounded bowls and long, swinging entry/exit strokes, creating a bouncy rhythm and intermittent connections between characters rather than fully continuous joining. Capitals are tall and simple with gentle loops and soft terminals, while lowercase forms keep a compact x-height with prominent ascenders and descenders that add vertical animation. Numerals follow the same drawn-with-a-pen logic, with open curves and slightly irregular proportions that reinforce the handmade feel.
Best suited to short-to-medium display copy where a personal, handwritten voice is desirable—invites, cards, product labels, café-style signage, quote graphics, and social media headlines. It can also work for brief annotations or pull quotes, especially when paired with a simpler text face for longer reading.
The overall tone is warm and informal, like neat marker or pen lettering used for notes and signage. Its loopy gestures and springy movement read as approachable and lightly whimsical rather than formal or technical.
The design appears intended to mimic quick, confident cursive writing with a clean monoline stroke, balancing legibility with expressive loops and a breezy forward motion. It aims to deliver a personable signature look that feels handcrafted and friendly across mixed-case words and numerals.
Stroke endings tend to taper subtly into rounded terminals, and several letters feature distinctive looped constructions (notably in curves and descenders) that give the face a memorable signature. Spacing and joins feel intentionally human—consistent enough for repeated use, but not mechanical—so texture is animated and expressive in running text.