Cursive Pykeb 9 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, upright, very short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, invitations, social media, quotes, casual, friendly, playful, handmade, expressive, handwritten feel, display impact, personable tone, craft aesthetic, brushy, looping, tall ascenders, bouncy baseline, rounded terminals.
A compact, brush-pen script with tall, slender proportions and noticeably tight counters. Strokes show strong contrast between downstrokes and lighter connecting strokes, with soft, rounded terminals and occasional ink-like swell. Letterforms lean mostly upright while maintaining a lively, bouncy rhythm, and spacing varies naturally as in hand lettering. Uppercase forms are decorative and loopy, while the lowercase keeps simple joins with occasional breaks, preserving an informal handwritten texture.
Well suited to short-to-medium display copy where a friendly handwritten voice is desired, such as branding accents, packaging, invitations, greeting cards, social posts, and pull quotes. It can also work for headings and subheads when paired with a more neutral text face.
The overall tone is warm and personable, with an upbeat, approachable feel. Its looping capitals and springy movement read as playful and craft-oriented rather than formal, giving text a conversational, handwritten character.
The design appears intended to emulate quick, confident brush lettering with clean, repeatable forms—delivering a hand-drawn look that remains legible and cohesive across alphabet, numerals, and mixed-case sample text.
The numerals follow the same narrow, high-contrast brush logic, with simplified shapes and minimal ornamentation. The set emphasizes verticality—long ascenders/descenders and compact bowls—creating a distinctive silhouette in mixed-case settings.