Cursive Elkam 2 is a very light, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, social posts, quotes, invitations, airy, casual, lively, personal, elegant, signature feel, human warmth, display elegance, quick script, brushlike, monoline-ish, looping, slanted, open forms.
A slender, right-slanted handwritten script with brushlike strokes and gently modulated thickness. Letterforms are built from long, tapering ascenders and descenders, narrow ovals, and open counters, with occasional looped constructions in capitals and select lowercase. Strokes feel continuous and drawn, with soft terminals and a slightly elastic baseline rhythm; connections are implied by flow rather than consistently joined cursive throughout. Numerals follow the same light, streamlined construction with simple, quick curves.
Works well for logos, boutique branding, and packaging where a handmade signature feel is desired. It suits social media graphics, pull quotes, and short headlines that benefit from a light, flowing rhythm. With its tall extenders and delicate strokes, it’s best at larger sizes or in high-contrast applications rather than dense body copy.
The overall tone is relaxed and personable, like quick neat handwriting with a polished edge. Its lightness and slant give it an airy, fashion-adjacent sophistication while still reading as informal and friendly. The lively stroke motion adds a sense of spontaneity suited to expressive, human-centered messaging.
Designed to mimic quick, elegant handwriting: narrow, lightly brushed strokes with expressive capitals and a smooth forward motion. The emphasis appears to be on creating a graceful, personal tone for display typography while keeping letterforms simple enough to remain readable in short phrases.
Capitals are prominent and gestural, often taller and more decorative than the lowercase, which helps create strong word shapes in headline settings. The short lowercase body and long extenders make lines feel tall and breezy, but they also increase the need for generous line spacing. The sample text shows good flow in mixed-case phrases, with distinctive loops in letters like J, Q, and y that add character.