Print Dagap 8 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: children’s books, packaging, posters, headlines, branding, playful, friendly, whimsical, casual, hand-drawn, human touch, approachability, playfulness, casual readability, rounded, brushy, bouncy, quirky, soft terminals.
A lively hand-drawn print style with rounded forms, subtly uneven stroke thickness, and gently irregular curves that preserve a consistent overall rhythm. Terminals are mostly soft and blunted, with occasional tapered, brush-like endings that give letters a drawn-with-a-marker feel. Proportions vary slightly from glyph to glyph, with open counters and simple, readable shapes; uppercase forms are bold and buoyant, while lowercase keeps a compact, casual structure with single-storey a and g. Numerals follow the same informal construction, mixing rounded bowls with slightly offbeat angles for a natural, human cadence.
Well suited to children’s titles, playful headlines, and friendly short-form copy where warmth and informality are desirable. It can work nicely for packaging, café or craft branding, invitations, and posters, especially when paired with simple graphics or bright color palettes.
The font reads warm and approachable, with a cheerful, storybook energy. Its imperfect, hand-rendered texture suggests spontaneity and personality, keeping text feeling conversational rather than formal or corporate.
Designed to provide an easygoing, hand-drawn voice with consistent readability, balancing cartoon-like roundness with enough structure for continuous text. The goal appears to be a personable, human feel that remains clean and coherent across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals.
The overall color is fairly dark and steady at text sizes, but the intentional micro-variations in curvature and stroke edges add a gentle “wobble” that becomes more noticeable in larger settings. Letterspacing appears comfortable and the forms stay legible in mixed-case paragraphs while still signaling a distinctly informal tone.