Cursive Tekev 5 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, branding, packaging, social media, headlines, friendly, casual, energetic, playful, confident, hand-lettered feel, bold impact, approachable tone, quick brush look, brushy, slanted, rounded, bouncy, textured.
A slanted, brush-pen style script with thick, pressure-shaped strokes and softly rounded terminals. Letterforms show a lively, bouncing baseline and variable stroke widths, with occasional tapered entry/exit strokes that mimic quick marker movement. Capitals are tall and narrow with simplified, loopless construction, while lowercase forms stay compact with small counters and restrained ascenders/descenders. Overall spacing is tight and rhythmic, giving words a dense, hand-lettered color on the page.
Best suited to short-to-medium display settings where a friendly handwritten tone is desired, such as posters, promotional graphics, packaging callouts, café/retail signage, and social media titles. It can also work for punchy subheads or pull quotes when paired with a simpler text face for body copy.
The font reads as upbeat and personable, with the quick, gestural texture of casual handwriting. Its confident slant and bold brush weight create a dynamic, modern craft feel—more conversational than formal, and more energetic than delicate.
Designed to capture the look of quick brush lettering—bold, compact, and expressive—while remaining consistent enough for repeated use in branding and promotional typography. The aim appears to be an approachable script voice with strong visual impact at larger sizes.
Consistency across the alphabet keeps the style cohesive, but the strokes retain natural irregularities that signal real hand movement. Numerals follow the same brush logic and slant, matching the text for cohesive display use.