Cursive Puha 8 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, greeting cards, packaging, logo marks, social media, playful, charming, casual, whimsical, friendly, personal tone, handmade feel, casual display, expressive caps, looped, bouncy, rounded, monoline, swashy.
A lively cursive script with a steady, pen-like stroke and rounded terminals. Letterforms lean forward and move with a bouncy baseline rhythm, mixing compact lowercase with taller, looped ascenders and descenders. Capitals are more decorative, featuring occasional entry strokes and gentle swashes, while lowercase shapes stay relatively simple and readable with soft joins and open counters. Numerals follow the same handwritten logic, with smooth curves and a slightly irregular, human cadence that keeps repeated forms from feeling mechanical.
Best suited to short-to-medium display text where its loops and upbeat rhythm can be appreciated—such as invitations, greeting cards, lifestyle packaging, boutique branding, and social graphics. It can also work for headings, pull quotes, and product labels, especially when paired with a simpler sans for supporting copy.
The overall tone is warm and personable, suggesting handwritten notes, cheerful invitations, and informal branding. Its looping gestures and buoyant movement add a lighthearted, conversational feel without becoming overly ornate.
Likely intended as an approachable, handwritten cursive for modern casual communication—balancing legibility with decorative loopiness so designers can evoke a personal, handcrafted signature-like voice in branding and editorial accents.
The design shows clear contrast between restrained lowercase and more expressive capitals, which can be used to add emphasis at the start of words or in short display lines. The short lowercase proportions make ascenders/descenders do much of the visual work, giving text a distinctive up-and-down sparkle that is especially noticeable in mixed-case settings.