Cursive Efnir 9 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: signatures, invitations, greeting cards, quotes, packaging, casual, lively, romantic, personal, vintage, handwritten feel, expressive display, personal tone, signature style, casual elegance, brushy, looped, slanted, expressive, bouncy.
A slanted, brush-pen script with smooth, continuous strokes and a lightly textured, hand-drawn finish. Letterforms are narrow and energetic, with long, tapered entry/exit strokes and frequent looped joins in the lowercase. Capitals are larger and more gestural, often built from a single sweeping movement, while counters stay fairly compact and the overall rhythm feels quick and fluid. Stroke endings taper naturally, with moderate thick–thin change that reads as pressure from a pen rather than rigid calligraphic construction.
Well-suited to short, expressive text such as signatures, invitations, greeting cards, social posts, pull quotes, and lifestyle packaging. It performs best at display sizes where the tapered joins and loops remain clear, and where its lively rhythm can act as a visual accent rather than body copy.
The font conveys an informal, personable tone—confident and upbeat, with a hint of vintage sign-off charm. Its quick rhythm and looping connections feel conversational and affectionate, making text feel like a handwritten note rather than a formal script.
Designed to capture the immediacy of fast, confident handwriting with a brush-pen feel—favoring flow, gesture, and personality over strict uniformity. The combination of sweeping capitals and connected lowercase suggests an emphasis on expressive display use for personal or boutique branding contexts.
Spacing and connections vary slightly from letter to letter, reinforcing an authentic handwritten cadence. The numerals follow the same flowing, slanted style, helping mixed alphanumeric settings feel cohesive. The very small lowercase bodies relative to ascenders/descenders give lines a tall, airy silhouette when set in text.