Cursive Aplob 13 is a regular weight, very narrow, very high contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, branding, logotypes, packaging, quotes, elegant, lively, romantic, vintage, airy, signature feel, brush calligraphy, expressive caps, display impact, personal tone, brushy, swashy, looping, calligraphic, bouncy.
A slender, slanted script with pronounced thick–thin modulation and a brush-pen feel. Strokes move with quick, tapered entries and exits, producing frequent hairline terminals and occasional teardrop-like finishes. Letterforms are narrow and vertically driven, with looping ascenders/descenders and selective connections that create an uneven, handwritten rhythm. Caps are more expressive and flourished than the lowercase, with long strokes and occasional swashes that stand out in word beginnings.
Best suited to display use such as invitations, greeting cards, beauty/lifestyle branding, boutique packaging, social graphics, and short quote treatments. It performs especially well at larger sizes where the hairlines and tapered terminals remain clear and the swashy capitals can act as visual anchors.
The overall tone is refined yet informal, combining a graceful calligraphic look with a spontaneous hand-drawn energy. It reads as romantic and slightly vintage, with a light, airy presence that feels personal rather than strictly formal.
Designed to emulate quick brush-calligraphy handwriting with expressive capitals and high-contrast strokes, aiming for an elegant signature-like voice that feels crafted and personal. The narrow proportions and lively stroke endings suggest an intention to create dramatic word shapes in short, prominent lines of text.
The contrast and thin joins make spacing and word texture sensitive: dense settings can look spiky where hairlines meet, while generous tracking lets the elegant modulation breathe. Numerals follow the same narrow, flowing construction, and the sample text shows strong headline character with distinctive cap silhouettes.