Cursive Ehlem 4 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, branding, packaging, social media, invitations, expressive, casual, lively, handmade, energetic, handwritten feel, brush lettering, expressive display, personal tone, fast rhythm, brushy, slanted, looping, spiky, compressed.
A brisk, brush-pen style script with a pronounced rightward slant and compact, space-saving proportions. Strokes show clear pressure-driven modulation, with tapered entries and exits, occasional pointed terminals, and slightly irregular contours that keep the texture organic. Letterforms mix open counters with tight joins and looping connections, creating a continuous rhythm that alternates between smooth curves and sharper angles. Capitals are tall and gestural, while lowercase forms stay relatively compact with long, sweeping ascenders and descenders that add momentum in running text.
Well suited to display uses where a handwritten voice is desired—posters, packaging callouts, branding accents, social graphics, and invitation-style headlines. It works especially well for short to medium lines of text where the energetic joins and tall strokes can be appreciated without overcrowding.
The overall tone is informal and animated, like quick, confident handwriting made with a felt tip or brush marker. It feels personable and energetic rather than formal, bringing a sense of immediacy and motion to short phrases and headlines.
The design appears intended to emulate fast, natural brush lettering with consistent momentum and a compact footprint, giving designers an expressive script that feels spontaneous while remaining cohesive across capitals, lowercase, and figures.
Spacing and connections create a lively, slightly bouncy baseline, and the narrow silhouettes produce dense word shapes that read best when given some breathing room in line spacing. Numerals follow the same brisk, handwritten logic, with slanted forms and varied stroke endings that match the script’s pace.