Print Fabab 5 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, packaging, game titles, grunge, playful, rough, handmade, edgy, handmade feel, distressed impact, display punch, informal tone, brushy, ragged, textured, inked, expressive.
A compact, hand-rendered print style with thick, brush-like strokes and visibly ragged contours. The letterforms are mostly upright with slightly uneven stroke terminals, creating a torn-ink texture along curves and verticals. Counters are relatively open for a distressed style, while proportions shift subtly from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an organic, hand-drawn rhythm. Numerals and capitals share the same heavy, irregular edge treatment, giving the set a cohesive, poster-ready presence.
Best suited for short, high-impact copy such as posters, titles, and punchy headlines where the rough edges can be appreciated. It also fits branding moments that want a handmade, gritty feel—music artwork, event graphics, packaging callouts, and game or comic-style display text. For longer reading, the persistent texture and irregularity may be visually fatiguing, so it works best in bursts.
The overall tone feels gritty and energetic—like quick lettering done with a loaded marker or dry brush. Its imperfect edges and bouncy spacing read as informal and expressive, lending a mischievous, streetwise character that can swing from fun to slightly menacing depending on color and context.
This design appears intended to mimic fast, expressive hand lettering with a deliberately distressed, brush-drag finish. The goal is a strong display voice that feels human and raw rather than polished, prioritizing personality and impact over typographic neutrality.
The texture is driven by uneven outlines rather than internal shading, so the distressed effect remains legible at display sizes while gaining more bite as it scales up. Round letters (like O/C) show chunky, uneven bowls, while vertical-heavy shapes (like I/N/H) emphasize the brush drag and frayed terminals.