Cursive Hivy 3 is a very light, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, signatures, branding, headlines, packaging, elegant, airy, delicate, refined, romantic, personal feel, elegant script, signature look, lightness, expressive caps, monoline, calligraphic, looping, swashy, slanted.
A very fine, monoline script with a strong rightward slant and long, tapered entry/exit strokes that create an airy, high-contrast rhythm despite the light stroke weight. Letterforms are narrow and quick, with compact counters and a notably small lowercase body that sits low against tall ascenders and extended descenders. Capitals are expressive and elongated, often built from sweeping curves and sharp hairline turns, while many lowercase forms rely on simplified, open constructions that read like fast pen handwriting. Overall spacing feels loose and flowing, with strokes that frequently connect or nearly connect, producing a continuous, linear texture in words.
Best suited for short-to-medium display settings where its delicate strokes and sweeping capitals can breathe—wedding or event invitations, boutique branding, signature-style logos, beauty and lifestyle packaging, and editorial headlines. It works especially well on light backgrounds at comfortable sizes, where the fine details remain visible and the generous loops don’t crowd neighboring letters.
The tone is graceful and intimate, like personal correspondence written with a fine pen. Its restrained thinness and looping capitals add a sense of refinement and romance, while the brisk, slightly angular movement keeps it feeling contemporary and spontaneous rather than formal engraving.
This font appears designed to capture the look of quick, elegant handwriting with a fine nib: minimal stroke mass, high fluidity, and expressive capitals that provide instant personality. The emphasis is on a light, graceful texture and a natural written cadence rather than strict uniformity.
The most distinctive traits are the tall, swashy capitals and the long descenders (notably in letters like g, y, and j), which create strong vertical motion across lines. Numerals follow the same hairline, handwritten logic, staying light and slightly angular, suitable for subtle inline use rather than emphasis.