Cursive Opbak 9 is a very light, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: signatures, invitations, branding, packaging, social media, airy, delicate, intimate, casual, elegant, personal tone, modern script, light elegance, handwritten realism, monoline, linear, looping, tall, slanted.
A thin, monoline cursive script with a pronounced rightward slant and tall, narrow letterforms. Strokes feel pen-drawn with smooth, continuous curves and occasional tapered-looking terminals from stroke speed rather than true weight modulation. Capitals are large and simple, often built from single sweeping motions, while lowercase forms are compact with long ascenders/descenders that add a vertical, calligraphic rhythm. Spacing is open for such a narrow script, and the overall texture stays light and uncluttered, with selective loop forms (notably in letters like g, y, and some capitals) providing gentle flourish.
Best suited to short, display-length settings where a personal handwritten voice is desired: signatures, invitation lines, boutique branding, packaging accents, and social graphics. It works especially well when given generous size and whitespace, and when paired with a sturdier text face for longer reading.
The tone is refined but informal—like quick, stylish handwriting on a card or label. Its light touch and tall proportions read as graceful and personal, with a breezy, contemporary feel rather than ornate formality.
The font appears designed to capture a clean, modern cursive handwriting style—light, fast, and elegant—while keeping letterforms consistent enough for repeated use in titles and small branding moments.
The design mixes connective script behavior with some partially separated joins, so words can alternate between linked strokes and small breaks that keep counters clear. Numerals and capitals maintain the same slender, handwritten logic, favoring simplified forms over decorative swashes, which helps the font stay readable in short phrases despite its delicacy.