Print Vibub 6 is a light, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, signage, packaging, retro, technical, whimsical, quirky, spare, retro tech, display impact, hand-drawn character, space saving, monoline, condensed, angular, rounded corners, single-storey.
A condensed, monoline display face built from tall, slender strokes with softly squared corners and occasional chamfered terminals. Curves are minimal and often resolved as rounded-rectangle shapes (notably in C, O, and zero), while joins stay crisp and geometric. Stroke endings frequently taper into short hooks or flattened caps, giving the outlines a drawn, slightly idiosyncratic rhythm despite an overall systematic construction. The lowercase uses mostly single-storey forms with narrow bowls and high vertical emphasis, and punctuation is simple and clean.
Best suited for short headlines, poster typography, wordmarks, and signage where a tall condensed look is desirable. It can also work for packaging or interface labels that want a retro-tech flavor, but its quirky details are most effective at larger sizes.
The overall tone feels retro-futuristic and lightly mechanical, like hand-drafted lettering for instruments or sci‑fi signage. Its quirky terminals and compact proportions add a playful, offbeat personality rather than strict industrial neutrality.
The design intent appears to be a hand-drawn, geometric condensed alphabet that balances a systematic, technical skeleton with small humanized quirks in terminals and curves. It aims to evoke vintage display lettering while remaining clean and legible for bold titling.
Spacing appears fairly tight and the narrow letterforms create strong vertical texture in text. Distinctive character shapes—such as the looped/angled diagonals in K, M, N, V/W and the rounded-rect counters in O/0—push it toward display use, where its unusual construction reads as intentional style.