Cursive Gorey 5 is a very light, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, branding, packaging, quotes, headlines, elegant, airy, romantic, personal, refined, handwritten elegance, signature feel, decorative caps, expressive display, monoline, high slant, looping, tall ascenders, long descenders.
A slender, highly slanted cursive with a smooth, pen-written rhythm and lightly modulated strokes. Letterforms are tall and compact with minimal sidebearing, creating a narrow, linear texture, while capitals feature sweeping entrance strokes and occasional looped or oval gestures. Lowercase shows a small body with pronounced ascenders and long descenders, and the numerals follow the same delicate, handwritten construction with open curves and simple terminals. Overall spacing and stroke continuity emphasize flow over strict uniformity, giving lines of text an agile, calligraphic cadence.
Well suited to wedding and event invitations, boutique branding, beauty or lifestyle packaging, and short display lines such as pull quotes or social graphics. It performs best at larger sizes where the fine strokes and compact proportions remain clear, especially when ample line spacing is available.
The font conveys a quiet sophistication—graceful, intimate, and slightly dramatic in its lean and long strokes. Its airy construction and looping capitals read as romantic and personable, suited to expressive, signature-like settings rather than utilitarian tone.
Designed to mimic a fast, confident cursive hand with refined, calligraphic touches—especially in the capitals—balancing readability with expressive flourish for display-forward applications.
Capitals are notably more decorative than lowercase, with elongated lead-in strokes that can extend leftward and upward, adding flourish in title settings. The alphabet maintains a consistent rightward slant and a cohesive handwritten tempo, with occasional variability typical of natural pen movement.