Outline Anke 13 is a regular weight, normal width, very high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, event promo, kids media, playful, hand-drawn, quirky, spooky, whimsical, handmade feel, textured display, quirky personality, informal tone, rough, inky, wobbly, chalky, cartoonish.
This typeface combines chunky, rounded forms with a loosely drawn outline and irregular internal cut-outs that create a hollowed, scribbled look. Strokes are highly uneven, with visible wobble and occasional doubled contours that suggest quick marker or brush movement. Terminals tend to be soft and bulbous, counters are often partially open or interrupted, and overall spacing varies from glyph to glyph, producing an intentionally inconsistent rhythm. The lowercase is compact with a notably low x-height, while capitals and numerals read larger and more attention-grabbing.
Best suited for short-form display use such as posters, titles, stickers, packaging accents, and event promotion where texture and personality are more important than typographic neutrality. It can work well for playful brands, seasonal graphics, and illustrative layouts, and is most effective at medium-to-large sizes where the hollow details remain legible.
The overall tone is mischievous and handmade, mixing cartoon friendliness with a slightly eerie, distressed edge. Its sketchy hollows and unstable contours give it a playful, offbeat character that can feel Halloween-adjacent without becoming overtly grungy.
The design appears intended to emulate a hand-inked, sketch-outline aesthetic with deliberate imperfections and hollowed details, prioritizing character and motion over uniform geometry. It aims to deliver strong visual presence with a quirky, crafted feel.
Round letters (like O and Q) show prominent interior voids and uneven inner shapes, while diagonals (like V, W, X) lean into scratchy, cross-hatched construction. The font’s irregular outlines are a defining feature, so it looks most convincing when allowed to feel imperfect rather than mechanically clean.