Cursive Tupa 5 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, greeting cards, branding, packaging, social media, casual, friendly, playful, personal, airy, handwritten feel, warm branding, expressive display, casual scripting, monoline-ish, looping, bouncy, whimsical, tall ascenders.
A lively cursive script with a rightward slant and a pen-drawn feel. Strokes are smooth and rounded with modest contrast and softly tapered joins, creating an even, continuous rhythm in words. Letterforms are generally narrow with tall ascenders and descenders, and the lowercase sits low with compact bodies, giving the line a light, vertical emphasis. Capitals are larger and more gestural, with occasional looped entries and simple, open counters; numerals follow the same hand-drawn logic with rounded terminals and slightly varied widths.
Well-suited for invitations, greeting cards, quotes, and short headlines where a personal touch is desired. It also works for boutique branding, packaging accents, and social media graphics, especially when paired with a simple sans or serif for supporting text.
The font reads as informal and personable, like quick but confident handwriting. Its looping forms and buoyant rhythm lend a friendly, slightly whimsical tone that feels approachable rather than formal or calligraphic.
Designed to emulate neat, contemporary handwriting with connected cursive flow and expressive capitals, balancing charm with readability for display-oriented applications.
Connections between lowercase letters are consistent, producing smooth word shapes, while individual glyph widths and stroke endings vary subtly in a natural handwritten way. The overall texture stays clean and legible at display sizes, with distinctive long strokes in letters like f, g, j, y that add expressiveness in running text.