Cursive Atlen 1 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, social media, invites, quotes, casual, friendly, playful, lively, handmade, handwritten feel, casual display, modern brush script, approachable tone, brushy, looped, bouncy, monoline feel, swashy.
A lively brush-pen script with a right-leaning posture and an energetic, slightly bouncy rhythm. Strokes show noticeable contrast between thick downstrokes and finer connecting upstrokes, with rounded terminals and occasional tapered finishes. Letterforms are compact and tall-leaning, with modest counters, looped ascenders/descenders, and smooth, continuous joins in lowercase. Capitals are simpler and more open than the lowercase, often built from a few confident strokes, while numerals keep the same handwritten cadence and soft curves.
Well-suited to short display settings where a friendly handwritten tone is desirable, such as logos, product packaging, café menus, invitations, greeting cards, and social posts. It also works nicely for pull quotes and headings when set with comfortable spacing and moderate sizes to preserve the brush contrast and loops.
The overall tone feels informal and personable, like neat marker lettering made quickly but with flair. Its loops and soft curves read as upbeat and approachable, lending a warm, conversational voice rather than a formal calligraphic one.
This design appears intended to capture the immediacy of modern brush lettering in a tidy, repeatable font form—balancing expressive contrast and loops with clear, readable shapes for everyday display use.
Connections are generally consistent and flowing, but individual letters retain a hand-drawn character with small variations in stroke shaping and width that enhance authenticity. The stroke endings and cross-strokes (such as on t and f) add subtle gesture without becoming overly ornate, keeping the texture clean in short phrases.