Cursive Efkar 12 is a light, narrow, low contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: wedding, invitations, greeting cards, branding, packaging, elegant, airy, romantic, personal, graceful, handwritten polish, formal flourish, display script, personal tone, monoline, looping, swashy, slanted, fluid.
A fluid cursive script with a monoline feel and a consistent rightward slant. Strokes are smooth and lightly weighted, with generous entry/exit strokes that create a lively baseline rhythm. Capitals are tall and loop-driven with occasional swashy turns, while lowercase forms stay compact with narrow bowls and frequent linking shapes. Numerals follow the same handwritten logic, using simple, rounded constructions and open counters where applicable.
Well suited to wedding suites, invitations, greeting cards, and other celebratory stationery where a graceful handwritten tone is desired. It can also work for boutique branding, beauty/lifestyle packaging, and short headlines or pull quotes where the decorative capitals can lead. For longer passages, it performs best at larger sizes where the delicate strokes and tight internal spaces remain clear.
The overall tone is refined and intimate, like neat handwritten correspondence with a touch of flourish. Its looping capitals and elongated strokes suggest a romantic, boutique sensibility rather than a utilitarian one. The light, airy drawing keeps the voice gentle and personable.
Likely designed to provide a polished, contemporary cursive look that feels authentically handwritten while staying clean and consistent across the alphabet. The prominent swashy capitals and smooth connectors suggest an emphasis on expressive word shapes for display-driven typography.
The design leans on expressive capitals and long connectors, which can create prominent horizontal motion in words and can increase the need for comfortable spacing in longer lines. Letterforms remain visually coherent across cases, with a steady slant and consistent stroke behavior that maintains a handwritten cadence.