Cursive Osgiz 8 is a very light, very narrow, low contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: signatures, invitations, quotes, packaging, social posts, airy, delicate, intimate, whimsical, casual, personal note, signature feel, light elegance, casual display, quick handwriting, spidery, loopy, monoline, slanted, lanky.
A slender, monoline handwritten script with a pronounced rightward slant and tall, compressed letterforms. Strokes stay consistently thin with subtle waviness that suggests quick pen movement rather than geometric construction. Ascenders and capitals are especially elongated, while the lowercase maintains a notably small x-height, creating high vertical rhythm and lots of white space inside and around letters. Curves are narrow and looped, with occasional entry/exit strokes that imply cursive connection in running text.
Best suited to short display settings where a delicate handwritten voice is desired—signatures, invitations, boutique packaging, pull quotes, and social graphics. It can also work for short headers over spacious layouts, where its tall forms and fine strokes have room to breathe.
The overall tone feels personal and lightweight, like a quick note or signature written with a fine pen. Its lanky proportions and looping forms give it a slightly whimsical, off-the-cuff character rather than a polished formal script.
Designed to capture the immediacy of cursive handwriting with a fine-pen feel: narrow, elongated forms and simple monoline strokes that prioritize expressive rhythm and a personal touch over dense text readability.
Capitals are tall and expressive, often built from single continuous strokes, which makes initial letters stand out strongly in headlines. Numerals follow the same narrow, handwritten logic and read as lightly drawn figures suited to display rather than tabular settings.