Cursive Ekkev 8 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, invitations, quotes, social posts, friendly, playful, personal, casual, romantic, handwritten feel, signature style, expressive caps, casual elegance, friendly tone, looping, flowing, swashy, monoline-ish, rounded.
A lively cursive script with a pronounced rightward slant and long, elastic strokes. Letterforms are built from smooth, brush-like lines that taper subtly at joins, creating a handwritten rhythm with occasional loops and soft entry/exit terminals. Ascenders and descenders run long and airy, while the lowercase bodies stay compact, giving the alphabet a tall, elegant silhouette. Uppercase characters are more expressive, featuring enlarged loops and sweeping strokes, while numerals follow the same handwritten logic with rounded turns and open counters.
Best suited to short-to-medium display text where its cursive motion and distinctive capitals can carry tone—logos, product labels, wedding and event invitations, greeting cards, pull quotes, and social graphics. It can also work for headings and accent lines paired with a neutral sans or serif for body copy.
The font reads as personable and upbeat, like a quick but confident signature or note written with a felt-tip pen. Its looping capitals and buoyant motion suggest warmth and informality, with a slightly romantic, boutique feel.
Designed to emulate contemporary handwritten lettering with an easy, flowing cadence and signature-like expressiveness. The compact lowercase paired with generous extenders and swashy capitals aims to deliver a stylish personal touch while keeping words coherent in typical headline and tagline use.
Stroke connections are frequent in lowercase, but spacing and joins retain a natural, hand-drawn irregularity rather than strict calligraphic formality. The overall texture stays clean and uncluttered, with flourishes concentrated mainly in capitals and select letter endings, helping longer phrases remain readable at display sizes.