Script Efdak 1 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, headlines, posters, greeting cards, friendly, retro, playful, expressive, casual, hand-lettered feel, display impact, friendly tone, vintage flavor, brushy, looping, swashy, rounded, bouncy.
A lively slanted script with a brush-pen feel and rounded, tapered terminals. Strokes show smooth, medium-contrast modulation with thickened downstrokes and lighter connecting strokes, creating a fluid rhythm across words. Uppercase letters are more display-oriented, with generous curves and occasional entry/exit swashes, while the lowercase maintains compact proportions and a quick handwritten cadence. Numerals are curvy and informal, matching the letterforms’ soft shoulders and teardrop-like endings.
This font is well suited to short-to-medium display text where personality is desired—brand marks, café or boutique identities, product packaging, posters, and social graphics. It can also work for invitations and greeting-card style copy, especially when paired with a simple sans for supporting text.
The overall tone is warm and personable, with a vintage sign-painting energy and a buoyant, handwritten charm. Its flowing forms and soft terminals read as approachable and upbeat rather than formal or restrained.
The design appears intended to emulate confident brush lettering with consistent, production-friendly shapes—balancing decorative swashes with legible, fast-moving cursive forms for expressive display use.
Connections between letters feel natural and continuous in running text, but the design still preserves distinct shapes for readability through pronounced loops, open counters, and clear stroke direction changes. The uppercase set is notably more decorative than the lowercase, making it effective for emphasis and initial caps.