Print Hekal 5 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, reverse italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, halloween, comics, album covers, playful, spooky, chaotic, handmade, comic, handmade feel, quirky impact, spooky playfulness, poster punch, jagged, angular, irregular, chunky, distressed.
A chunky, hand-drawn display face with irregular, chiseled contours and angular terminals that feel cut from paper or carved with a blunt tool. Strokes are heavy and mostly monoline in impression, with subtle waviness and nicks that create a rough silhouette. Letterforms lean back slightly and vary in width and internal spacing, producing a bouncy rhythm and uneven texture across lines. Counters are often small and off-center, and joins can be sharp or abruptly flattened, reinforcing the intentionally imperfect construction.
Well suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, event flyers, packaging callouts, game titles, and expressive headlines. The spooky-comic flavor makes it particularly effective for Halloween themes, monster or mystery branding, and playful warning labels, where character matters more than long-form readability.
The overall tone is mischievous and slightly ominous, mixing cartoon energy with a horror-poster edge. Its uneven shapes and backward slant give it a quirky, off-kilter personality that feels loud, cheeky, and a bit unruly.
Designed to look intentionally handmade and slightly distressed, prioritizing personality and visual punch over strict typographic regularity. The backward slant, jagged edges, and variable widths appear meant to inject motion and a quirky, eerie attitude into display text.
The font reads best when given room: tight settings can make the heavy shapes and small counters close up, especially in dense words. The numerals match the same cutout-like, irregular construction, keeping the set visually consistent for headings and short bursts of text.