Print Pulum 8 is a very bold, normal width, high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, stickers, children’s media, playful, folksy, quirky, retro, handmade, handmade feel, display impact, friendly tone, informal branding, blobby, chunky, rounded, inky, irregular.
A chunky, hand-drawn print face with soft, rounded contours and noticeably uneven stroke edges that mimic a marker or brush fill. The letterforms lean forward with an informal rhythm, and proportions vary from glyph to glyph, creating a lively, non-mechanical texture. Counters are generally small and sometimes irregular, with terminals that taper or bulb subtly rather than resolving into crisp cuts. Spacing and widths feel intentionally uneven, reinforcing a casual, handmade cadence in both uppercase and lowercase.
This font is well-suited for short, attention-grabbing text such as posters, event flyers, product packaging, café or menu headers, stickers, and social graphics. It also fits playful editorial callouts and children-oriented branding where an informal, hand-rendered voice is desirable.
The overall tone is friendly and mischievous, like hand-lettering for a poster or craft label. Its inky, imperfect silhouettes give it a warm, approachable personality with a slightly vintage, DIY flavor.
The design appears intended to recreate bold hand-lettered signage with a deliberately imperfect edge, prioritizing personality and impact over precision. It aims to feel drawn in real ink, with varied shapes and spacing that keep lines of text energetic and approachable.
Uppercase forms read as sturdy and blocky, while the lowercase introduces more bounce and idiosyncratic shapes (notably in letters like a, g, r, and y). Numerals share the same rounded, heavy presence and look best when treated as display elements rather than small UI text.