Cursive Wiso 5 is a light, very narrow, high contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, greeting cards, quotes, packaging, branding, elegant, vintage, poetic, delicate, personal, handwritten elegance, personal tone, decorative script, pen realism, expressive caps, calligraphic, swashy, looping, slanted, monoline feel.
A flowing cursive hand with a pronounced rightward slant and long, tapered strokes that shift between hairline thins and sharper, inked accents. Letterforms are narrow and tall, with compact lowercase bodies and frequent ascenders/descenders that create an airy vertical rhythm. Terminals often finish in fine points or subtle hooks, while capitals introduce more gesture through loops and modest swashes. Spacing is irregular in a natural handwritten way, and strokes show slight wobble and pressure variation that reads as pen-drawn rather than mechanically uniform.
Best suited to short to medium lines where its delicate strokes and expressive capitals can shine—wedding or event invitations, greeting cards, pull quotes, and boutique branding. It also works well for packaging accents and headers paired with a simpler text face for body copy.
The overall tone feels refined and intimate, like a quick but careful note written with a dip pen. Its thin strokes and looping joins suggest a nostalgic, romantic mood, balancing grace with a slightly imperfect, human cadence.
Likely designed to capture the look of an elegant handwritten script—quick, slender, and expressive—emphasizing tall proportions, pen-like contrast, and graceful looping forms for decorative display use.
Lowercase joins are selective rather than fully continuous, so words read as a connected script with occasional lifted-pen breaks. Numerals and uppercase forms lean toward calligraphic shapes, with slender counters and pointed entry/exit strokes that can look especially lively at larger sizes.