Wacky Dobuy 14 is a bold, normal width, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, kids media, playful, handmade, quirky, offbeat, rugged, handmade feel, texture, attention grabbing, humor, diy character, choppy, angular, blocky, irregular, cartoony.
A chunky, angular display face with visibly irregular contours and a hand-cut feel. Strokes are heavy and mostly monoline, but edges wobble and corners break into faceted, chiseled planes, creating an intentionally uneven rhythm. Bowls and counters skew squarish and compact, with occasional asymmetric joins and slightly inconsistent stroke terminals that keep the texture lively. Uppercase forms read as blocky and segmented, while the lowercase maintains the same rough geometry with simplified, sturdy construction and tight apertures in letters like e, a, and s.
Best suited for short, attention-grabbing settings such as posters, event headlines, playful branding, packaging, and entertainment graphics. It can also work for punchy pull quotes or signage where a handmade, quirky texture is desired, but its busy outlines make it less appropriate for long-form reading at small sizes.
The overall tone is playful and mischievous, like lettering carved quickly into cardboard or wood with a blunt knife. Its rough, improvised geometry gives it a quirky, comic energy that feels informal and deliberately “wrong” in a charming way.
Likely designed to evoke an intentionally imperfect, handcrafted look—prioritizing personality and texture over typographic neutrality. The faceted, choppy outlines and blocky construction suggest an aim to stand out in display contexts with a distinctive, wacky voice.
The uneven edge treatment produces a strong, gritty texture in paragraphs, where the baseline and cap alignment feel visually hand-controlled rather than mechanically precise. Numerals follow the same faceted logic, staying legible while preserving the irregular, cutout silhouette.