Cursive Arlaw 8 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, social media, posters, invitations, playful, handmade, casual, friendly, lively, handwritten feel, display flair, personal tone, brush lettering, brushy, looping, bouncy, tapered, upright-leaning.
A brush-pen style script with energetic, tapered strokes and pronounced thick-to-thin modulation. Letterforms are mostly connected in text with occasional breaks, creating a quick, handwritten rhythm. Strokes show soft, ink-like terminals, narrow inner counters, and slightly irregular curves that keep the texture organic. Ascenders and capitals are tall and expressive, while the lowercase stays compact, producing a vertically animated line with tight sidebearings and lively spacing.
This font is well suited to short-to-medium headlines where a handcrafted tone is desirable—brand marks, product packaging callouts, café or boutique signage, posters, invitations, and social graphics. It can also work for emphasis within text (pull quotes or subheads) when set with generous line spacing to preserve the flowing connections.
The overall tone feels spontaneous and personable, like a note written with a felt or brush pen. Its bouncy movement and expressive capitals give it a cheerful, approachable voice with a hint of flair suitable for informal, human-centered messaging.
The design appears intended to emulate quick brush lettering with an expressive, modern script feel—prioritizing personality, motion, and contrast over strict uniformity. Its compact lowercase and animated capitals suggest a focus on eye-catching display use while retaining readable handwritten character.
Capitals lean toward decorative calligraphic shapes with simple swash-like entries and exits, while numerals follow the same brush logic with crisp tapers and compact forms. The texture remains consistent across the set, with deliberate variation that reads as hand-drawn rather than geometric.