Cursive Degef 8 is a very light, narrow, high contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, greeting cards, wedding stationery, quotes, packaging, airy, graceful, romantic, casual, delicate, signature style, personal tone, light elegance, modern script, monoline feel, looping, tall ascenders, long descenders, open counters.
A delicate cursive script with an airy stroke and pronounced contrast between hairline upstrokes and slightly heavier downstrokes. Letterforms are tall and slender, with long ascenders/descenders and a right-leaning, handwritten rhythm. Connections are fluid but not overly tight, with generous internal space, open counters, and frequent looped forms (notably in capitals and in letters like g, y, and z). Terminals are clean and tapered, and cross-strokes (such as on t and some capitals) extend as light, sweeping gestures that add sparkle without turning into heavy swashes.
This font works best for short, display-oriented text where its thin strokes and looping forms can remain crisp—such as invitations, greeting cards, wedding or event stationery, logos for boutique brands, and pulled quotes or headings. It can also add a handcrafted touch to light packaging and social graphics when set at comfortable sizes.
The overall tone feels elegant yet informal—like neat, quick handwriting dressed up for invitations. Its lightness and looping motion read as friendly and romantic, with a soft, personal character rather than a formal calligraphic severity.
The design appears intended to capture a refined, modern handwritten signature look: light, fast, and legible, with just enough flourish in capitals and cross-strokes to feel special while keeping lowercase forms simple and smooth.
Capitals are expressive and often taller than the lowercase, creating strong word-shape contrast in mixed-case settings. Numerals echo the same thin, handwritten construction and keep a consistent, slightly bouncy baseline feel in the sample text.