Cursive Efbod 13 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, quotes, greeting cards, social media, casual, expressive, friendly, retro, personal, handwritten feel, signature look, casual display, expressive tone, brushy, looping, slanted, lively, airy.
This script features a fast, brush-pen look with a rightward slant and lively, looping letterforms. Strokes show subtle pressure changes with tapered entries and exits, producing a mix of rounded curves and sharp flicks at terminals. Capitals are prominent and gestural, often built from single sweeping strokes, while lowercase forms stay compact with tight counters and abbreviated joins. Overall spacing and letter widths vary in a natural handwritten rhythm, with occasional high ascenders and long, energetic descenders that add movement in text.
Best suited for short to medium display settings where a handwritten voice is desired—brand marks, packaging accents, café or boutique signage, invitations, greeting cards, and pull quotes. It can also work for social posts and headers where an energetic, personal tone is more important than dense long-form readability.
The tone feels informal and personable, like a confident handwritten note or a quick signature. Its energetic curves and brisk stroke endings give it a spirited, slightly retro flair while remaining approachable and light.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of brush handwriting with expressive capitals and a lively baseline rhythm, providing a casual script for display typography that feels human and spontaneous.
Connections between letters are selective rather than fully continuous, creating a handwritten cadence that alternates between joined and separated forms. Numerals follow the same brushed, slanted style and read as quick, handwritten figures rather than rigid lining forms.