Script Kerab 9 is a light, normal width, very high contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: wedding, invitations, greeting cards, branding, packaging, elegant, romantic, whimsical, vintage, refined, calligraphic feel, decorative display, formal romance, personal touch, flourished, looping, swashy, calligraphic, monoline hairlines.
A decorative script with a pronounced slant, airy hairlines, and sharp thick-to-thin modulation that mimics a pointed-pen rhythm. Uppercase letters are highly embellished with large entry/exit swashes and generous loops, while the lowercase is more compact and rounded, with a notably small x-height and tall ascenders/descenders. Strokes often terminate in tapered flicks and teardrop-like joins, creating a lively, handwritten cadence. Numerals are similarly calligraphic and slightly irregular, prioritizing style over strict uniformity.
This font performs well for wedding suites, invitations, greeting cards, and other ceremonial or gift-oriented pieces. It’s also effective for boutique branding, beauty/fashion packaging, and short display phrases where the flourishing capitals can be showcased. For longer passages, it’s best used sparingly (headlines, names, pull quotes) rather than continuous text.
The overall tone is formal and charming, mixing classic calligraphy with playful flourishes. It feels suited to celebratory, sentimental, or boutique contexts where ornament and personality are desirable.
The design appears intended to emulate a refined, calligraphic hand with expressive swashes, offering a clear hierarchy between showy capitals and more restrained lowercase forms. Its emphasis is on elegance and ornamentation, aiming to add a crafted, celebratory feel to display typography.
Caps carry most of the visual drama and can dominate a line, especially in all-caps or initial-cap settings. At smaller sizes the fine hairlines and interior loops may fill in or lose clarity, so the face reads best when given space and a bit of size.