Script Duba 9 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, branding, packaging, greeting cards, headlines, elegant, playful, vintage, whimsical, friendly, handwritten charm, decorative script, expressive display, personal tone, looping, swashy, bouncy, monoline feel, rounded.
A lively, slanted script with a calligraphic, pen-drawn character. Strokes alternate between thicker downstrokes and hairline connectors, with rounded terminals and frequent entry/exit strokes that create a gently bouncing baseline. Letterforms are compact and upright in footprint but flow with noticeable curvature, featuring soft loops, teardrop-like joins, and occasional swashes on capitals and descenders. Uppercase characters lean toward decorative, simplified forms with pronounced stroke modulation, while lowercase maintains a consistent rhythm and connected-script behavior in words.
This font is well suited to short-to-medium display settings such as invitations, event materials, boutique branding, product packaging, greeting cards, and quote graphics. It performs best at larger sizes where the loops, joins, and stroke modulation have room to breathe, and where its expressive capitals can be used as focal points.
The overall tone feels personable and upbeat, balancing refinement with a casual handmade charm. Its looping shapes and buoyant rhythm suggest a cheerful, slightly nostalgic mood suited to expressive, human-forward messaging.
The design appears intended to mimic confident brush/pen lettering with a polished, catalog-ready consistency. It aims to deliver a decorative script look that remains legible in display use while preserving the spontaneity and warmth of hand lettering.
In running text, the connected forms and prominent loops can create dense textures, especially where tall ascenders/descenders repeat. Numerals follow the same handwritten logic, with rounded shapes and gentle stroke contrast that keeps them visually aligned with the alphabet.