Cursive Diraf 2 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, branding, packaging, social media, casual, expressive, brushy, friendly, crafty, handmade feel, casual script, expressive display, personal tone, painterly, textured, slanted, looped, organic.
A lively brush-script with a pronounced forward slant and compact proportions. Strokes show medium contrast with visible brush texture and occasional rough edges, giving forms a hand-rendered, slightly dry-brush character. Letterforms are mostly connected in running text, with simplified joins and open counters that keep the rhythm quick and airy. Ascenders are tall and energetic while the lowercase stays relatively small, and widths fluctuate naturally from glyph to glyph for an informal, handwritten cadence.
Best suited to short-to-medium settings where its brush texture and energetic slant can be appreciated: posters, display headlines, logos, packaging callouts, and social graphics. It also works well for greeting-card style messaging or editorial pull quotes, while very small sizes may reduce the visibility of its textured details.
The overall tone feels personal and upbeat, like quick marker or brush lettering used for notes, packaging, and casual headlines. Its irregularities and textured stroke edges add warmth and spontaneity, avoiding a polished calligraphic look in favor of something more human and approachable.
The design appears intended to mimic quick, confident brush handwriting with a natural, imperfect flow. It balances legibility with expressive stroke texture, aiming for a casual script voice that feels handmade rather than typographically rigid.
Caps are assertive and gestural, often built from a few sweeping strokes, while numerals follow the same brush logic with soft curves and tapered terminals. The punctuation in the sample text (colon, apostrophe) integrates cleanly without feeling overly formal, and the script maintains consistent slant and energy across longer lines.