Cursive Ihjo 5 is a bold, normal width, low contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, headlines, quotes, branding, casual, expressive, energetic, friendly, retro, handmade feel, quick lettering, personal voice, display impact, brushy, slanted, connected, rounded, marker-like.
A brisk, slanted script with brush-pen character and confidently heavy strokes. Letterforms are mostly connected with smooth, continuous joins and rounded terminals, while occasional lifted strokes create a natural handwritten rhythm. The baseline shows gentle bounce and the overall spacing is compact, with narrow counters and simplified interior shapes that keep the texture dense and lively. Capitals are prominent and loopless, leaning on swift entry strokes and tapered turns rather than formal flourishes.
This face works best for short-to-medium display settings where a handwritten voice is desirable—posters, packaging callouts, cafe or event signage, quote graphics, and branding accents. It can also serve for subheads or pull quotes when paired with a calmer text face, but its dense joins and brisk rhythm make it less suited to long body copy at small sizes.
The tone is informal and personable, like quick signage or a note written with a felt-tip or brush marker. Its forward slant and dense texture add urgency and momentum, giving it an energetic, slightly retro hand-lettered feel rather than a polished calligraphic one.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of quick brush writing: legible but unpolished, with connected strokes and a consistent rightward drive. It prioritizes personality and motion, aiming for an authentic hand-made impression in modern display contexts.
Numerals follow the same fast, handwritten logic, with simple, open shapes and consistent slant that helps them blend with text. The forms favor speed and gesture over symmetry, with noticeable stroke modulation coming from direction changes rather than high contrast.