Cursive Tekat 8 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: packaging, posters, social media, headlines, logos, friendly, lively, casual, expressive, retro, hand-lettered feel, brand warmth, display impact, playful tone, brushy, slanted, rounded, bouncy, textured.
A brush-pen script with a consistent rightward slant and punchy, calligraphic stroke modulation. Letterforms are compact with rounded bowls, tapered entry/exit strokes, and occasional blunt stroke terminals that suggest a marker-to-brush transition. Spacing is relatively tight and the rhythm is bouncy, with alternating thick downstrokes and thinner connecting strokes that keep the texture animated in lines of text. Uppercase characters are simplified and slightly decorative, while lowercase forms stay legible and energetic with looped ascenders/descenders and softly irregular contours.
Well-suited to short, attention-grabbing settings such as packaging labels, café menus, posters, and social media graphics. It can also work for logo wordmarks and branded taglines where an energetic handwritten voice is desired, rather than for extended reading text.
The overall tone is upbeat and informal, like quick hand-lettering for announcements or packaging. Its confident strokes and playful bounce give it a personable, approachable feel, leaning slightly nostalgic while remaining modern enough for contemporary branding.
Designed to emulate fast, confident brush handwriting with clear contrast and a lively baseline, aiming for a bold, personable signature-like look. The mix of readable construction and expressive stroke endings suggests an intention to balance charm with practical display usability.
The forms show mild natural variation typical of hand-drawn scripts, which adds warmth but also increases visual texture in dense paragraphs. It performs best when given some breathing room in tracking and line spacing, especially where thick strokes and tight joins might crowd at smaller sizes.