Cursive Elmos 3 is a light, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, posters, social media, headlines, casual, expressive, breezy, personal, lively, handwritten feel, signature look, display impact, quick lettering, personal tone, brushy, slanted, loose, gestural, airy.
A slim, slanted handwritten script with a brush-pen feel and a quick, energetic rhythm. Strokes taper sharply at entries and exits, with smooth, flowing curves and occasional angular turns, giving the letterforms a lively, sketched quality. Spacing is open and the forms are compact, with small lowercase bodies relative to tall ascenders and long descenders. Capitals are simplified and sweeping, while joins in the lowercase are implied rather than consistently connected, preserving a natural hand-drawn cadence.
Best suited to display roles where a handwritten voice is desired: logos and branding accents, packaging callouts, posters, invitations, and social graphics. It performs especially well at larger sizes where the tapered terminals and brisk stroke movement can be appreciated, and as a contrast font paired with a clean sans or serif for supporting text.
The overall tone is informal and personable, like a fast signature or note written with a fine brush marker. Its light footprint and brisk motion read as friendly and modern, with a slightly dramatic flair in the tall strokes and swash-like capitals.
Likely designed to capture the look of quick brush lettering—narrow, energetic, and legible enough for short phrases—while keeping a natural, human irregularity. The tall proportions and pointed terminals emphasize speed and expressiveness over formality, aiming for a contemporary handwritten signature style.
The numerals and uppercase maintain the same tapered brush logic, with narrow, elongated silhouettes that keep lines of text light and nimble. Stroke endings often finish in fine points, and the baseline behavior feels naturally uneven without becoming messy, supporting a spontaneous handwritten look.