Wacky Vemu 2 is a very bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album covers, event flyers, headlines, packaging, playful, groovy, quirky, retro, cartoonish, attention grabbing, expressive display, retro novelty, humorous tone, blobby, bulbous, flared, stencil-like, teardrop terminals.
A heavy, high-impact display face built from swollen, calligraphic blobs and sharp wedge cut-ins that create a stencil-like negative space. Strokes flare and pinch unpredictably, with pronounced ink-trap-like notches, teardrop terminals, and occasional internal slits that break counters into asymmetrical shapes. The rhythm is intentionally irregular: curves lean toward oval bowls, joins are chunky, and spacing feels optically tuned rather than mechanically uniform, emphasizing a hand-shaped, sculpted silhouette across letters and numerals.
Best suited for short, prominent settings where its bold shapes and quirky internal cutouts can be appreciated—posters, album/film titles, event flyers, packaging, and logo-like wordmarks. In longer paragraphs it becomes visually busy, so it works most effectively as a display accent paired with a simpler companion text face.
The overall tone is mischievous and offbeat, mixing a 1960s/70s psychedelic groove with a cartoon headline energy. Its exaggerated forms and surprising cutouts read as humorous and attention-seeking, giving text a bouncy, theatrical voice rather than a sober, informational one.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum personality through exaggerated massing and intentionally inconsistent modulation, creating a distinctive, one-off headline voice. The repeated wedge cut-ins and internal slits suggest a deliberate strategy to add sparkle and motion, turning solid black letterforms into lively, animated shapes.
Counters are often partially occluded by thick strokes or sliced by narrow apertures, which increases texture but can reduce clarity at smaller sizes. Numerals and capitals maintain the same swollen logic, and the design relies on strong black massing with bright internal highlights to create contrast and sparkle.