Print Dabiz 5 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, comics, playful, sketchy, casual, quirky, youthful, expressiveness, handmade feel, informal voice, display impact, personal tone, brushy, angular, spiky, marker-like, lively.
This font has a hand-drawn, marker/brush feel with energetic stroke modulation and crisp, angular turns. Letterforms mix rounded bowls with sharp terminals, and many characters show quick pen lifts and tapered entry/exit strokes that create a lively, slightly jagged silhouette. Spacing and widths feel intentionally uneven, giving lines of text a rhythmic, improvised texture while keeping forms generally legible. Uppercase shapes are simple and punchy, while lowercase adds more gestural detail with compact counters and occasional exaggerated diagonals.
It suits display uses where personality is more important than typographic neutrality—posters, cover lines, labels, event promos, and short branding phrases. The active texture also works well for youth-oriented graphics and illustrated or comic-adjacent layouts, especially at medium to large sizes where the stroke contrast and sharp terminals can be appreciated.
The overall tone is informal and spirited, like fast handwritten signage or a sketchbook title. Its irregular rhythm and pointed accents add a mischievous, expressive character, reading more like a personal note or indie poster than a polished corporate voice.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of quick, expressive handwriting while staying readable in short bursts of text. Its mix of brushy thickness, thin accent strokes, and deliberately irregular widths suggests a goal of adding motion and attitude to titles and signage-like phrases.
A recurring visual motif is the contrast between thick, brushed curves and thin, straight hairline strokes, which lends a scratchy highlight effect in several glyphs. Numerals keep the same quick, drawn construction, with open forms and emphatic diagonals that reinforce the energetic, hand-rendered personality.