Print Ugduy 9 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, book covers, quotes, whimsical, hand-drawn, retro, quirky, storybook, add personality, handmade feel, retro flavor, display impact, spindly, tall, airy, inked, uneven.
A tall, spindly display face with visibly hand-drawn construction and pronounced stroke-contrast. Stems are long and narrow with rounded terminals, while curves are thin and delicate, creating an airy rhythm. Proportions vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, with occasional asymmetric joins and idiosyncratic shapes (especially in diagonals and bowls) that reinforce an organic, drawn-by-hand feel. Spacing reads slightly irregular in a natural way, and many letters show simplified, monoline-like turns contrasted against heavier verticals.
Best suited to display settings where its quirky personality and narrow footprint can shine—headlines, poster titles, packaging accents, book covers, and short pull quotes. It can also work for logos or labels that want an artisanal, hand-rendered impression, but it’s most effective when used at larger sizes and with comfortable tracking.
The overall tone is playful and eccentric, with a vintage, storybook-like charm. Its narrow, high-contrast forms feel light and animated, suggesting a crafty, homemade sensibility rather than strict typographic formality.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of informal, hand-inked lettering in a condensed, high-contrast silhouette. Its deliberate irregularities and individualized letterforms prioritize character and charm over strict uniformity, aiming to add a lively, human touch to editorial and promotional typography.
Capitals are particularly tall and linear, while lowercase forms keep the same condensed stance with distinctive, sometimes unexpected silhouettes (notably in letters like g, j, and y). Numerals follow the same slender, high-contrast logic, staying legible while maintaining the whimsical, slightly irregular character.