Script Olsa 8 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, posters, headlines, quotes, friendly, retro, playful, confident, warm, handwritten warmth, signature look, display impact, brand voice, brushy, rounded, bouncy, casual, looping.
A compact, brush-leaning script with connected, flowing strokes and a steady rightward slant. Letterforms are rounded and full-bodied, with smooth entry/exit strokes and occasional looped joins that create a continuous rhythm across words. Strokes show gentle thick-to-thin modulation consistent with a pressure-driven tool, and terminals tend to be soft and tapered rather than sharp. Uppercase characters are more expressive, with larger swashes and curls, while lowercase maintains a tighter, more uniform texture; numerals follow the same handwritten logic with slightly varied widths and rounded forms.
Well-suited to branding and identity work that needs a personable signature, as well as packaging, café/restaurant materials, and lifestyle or retro-themed posters. It performs best as a display face for headlines, short phrases, and pull quotes where its connected rhythm and expressive capitals can shine.
The overall tone feels personable and upbeat, balancing polish with an informal, hand-drawn charm. Its energetic curves and buoyant baseline give it a vintage-leaning friendliness that reads as welcoming and optimistic rather than formal or austere.
The design appears intended to capture the look of confident brush handwriting in a clean, repeatable typographic system—expressive enough for standout titles, but controlled enough to keep word shapes readable in short-to-medium display text.
Spacing is relatively tight for a script, producing a dense, logo-like color at display sizes. Some capitals feature prominent internal loops and stroke crossings that add personality and help set a distinctive signature, while the lowercase remains legible and consistent in word shapes.