Cursive Gukan 16 is a very light, narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: wedding, invitations, greeting cards, signatures, quotes, airy, graceful, romantic, personal, delicate, signature, elegance, personal note, refined script, monoline, looping, calligraphic, slanted, open counters.
A delicate, monoline cursive script with a pronounced rightward slant and a light, pen-like stroke. Letterforms are narrow and tall with long ascenders and descenders, creating a lot of vertical movement and white space. Strokes taper subtly at entry and exit points, and many characters feature looping terminals and occasional extended cross-strokes, giving a drawn-in-one-pass feel. The rhythm is fluid and slightly irregular in a natural way, with mostly open counters and a restrained, elegant connection behavior in the lowercase.
This font is well suited to short-form, expressive settings such as wedding stationery, invitations, greeting cards, signature-style branding, and pull quotes. It works best at display sizes where the fine strokes and looping terminals can remain clear.
The overall tone is soft and intimate, like a neat personal note written with a fine pen. Its airy construction and sweeping loops convey a refined, romantic mood without becoming overly ornate.
The design appears intended to capture an elegant handwritten signature look—light, quick, and fluid—prioritizing personal warmth and graceful motion over rigid typographic regularity.
Uppercase forms tend to be larger and more gestural, with long leading strokes that can reach into neighboring space, while the lowercase remains comparatively restrained. Numerals follow the same handwritten logic, with simple, lightly drawn shapes that match the script’s thin stroke and slanted posture.