Cursive Gonaz 3 is a light, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, branding, packaging, headlines, greeting cards, elegant, airy, handwritten, romantic, refined, signature feel, personal tone, decorative caps, elegant script, display writing, monoline, looping, swashy, calligraphic, flowing.
This font presents a flowing, handwritten script with a consistent rightward slant and a light, ink-like stroke. Letterforms are slender and vertically oriented, with smooth curves, tapered joins, and frequent looped strokes in capitals and select lowercase letters. The rhythm is even and continuous in words, while individual glyphs retain a hand-drawn character through slight variation in stroke endings and curvature. Ascenders are prominent and the lowercase is compact, contributing to a tall, delicate silhouette across lines of text.
This font is well suited to invitations, greeting cards, beauty or lifestyle branding, and packaging that benefits from a refined handwritten signature feel. It performs best in display sizes for titles, names, and short statements where the looping capitals and slender strokes can be appreciated without crowding.
The overall tone feels graceful and personable, balancing polish with an informal, handwritten charm. It reads as gentle and expressive rather than bold or assertive, lending a romantic, boutique-like mood to headlines and short phrases.
The design appears intended to emulate neat, stylish cursive writing with a fashion-forward delicacy. Its narrow proportions and looping capitals suggest an emphasis on elegance and personalization for display-oriented typography rather than dense, long-form reading.
Capitals are notably expressive, using open loops and soft swashes (especially on letters like Q, R, and W) that create decorative entry points. Numerals follow the same cursive logic, with curved, handwritten forms that match the letter rhythm and maintain the font’s light, refined presence.