Cursive Efmel 1 is a regular weight, very narrow, low contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, social media, quotes, headlines, casual, personal, lively, expressive, fluid, handwritten feel, signature style, casual display, expressive tone, brushy, slanted, airy, looped, monolineish.
A fast, handwritten script with a pronounced rightward slant and brush-pen feel. Strokes read mostly low-contrast with tapered entries and exits, giving a smooth, continuous rhythm even where letters are not formally connected. Forms are tall and compact with tight sidebearings; capitals are larger and more gestural, often built from single sweeping strokes and open counters. The lowercase shows a notably small x-height with long ascenders and descenders, plus occasional loops (notably in letters like g, y, and z), producing an agile, sketch-like texture in text.
Well-suited for short, expressive settings such as logos, packaging accents, social posts, invitations, and quote graphics. It performs best in headlines and display lines where the tall proportions and small x-height can remain clear, and where a handwritten personality is desired over maximum readability in dense paragraphs.
The tone is friendly and informal, like quick notes written with a felt-tip or brush pen. Its energetic slant and flowing curves suggest spontaneity and warmth, leaning more modern and everyday than formal calligraphy.
Likely designed to mimic quick, confident handwriting with a brush-pen texture—prioritizing flow, gesture, and a natural rhythm. The compact, tall structure and animated capitals aim to deliver an expressive signature-like presence in branding and display typography.
At text sizes the script maintains a consistent forward motion, with slightly irregular widths that reinforce the hand-made character. Numerals follow the same cursive, stroked logic, reading as coordinated with the letterforms rather than mechanical lining figures.