Print Dirif 10 is a light, very narrow, medium contrast, reverse italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, greeting cards, children’s media, quirky, playful, casual, whimsical, youthful, hand-lettered feel, casual display, friendly tone, quirky texture, tall, spindly, monolinear, hand-drawn, bouncy.
A tall, spindly handwritten print with lightly modulated strokes and a gentle, right-leaning rhythm. Letterforms are narrow and elongated, with simple, mostly open counters and tapered terminals that feel like a quick pen or marker. Strokes show subtle wobble and organic inconsistency, giving the alphabet a lively, drawn-by-hand texture while maintaining clear, unconnected letter shapes. Ascenders are prominent, lowercase forms stay relatively compact, and spacing feels slightly irregular in a natural way.
Best suited to short display settings where its narrow, hand-drawn personality can be read at a glance—posters, titles, social graphics, packaging callouts, and greeting-card style messaging. It can also work for brief captions or pull quotes when set with generous size and breathing room to accommodate its irregular rhythm.
The overall tone is friendly and offbeat, with a sketchbook informality that reads as playful rather than polished. Its narrow, animated shapes create a lighthearted, chatty voice suited to humorous or quirky messaging.
The design appears intended to mimic casual hand lettering—tall, narrow, and slightly imperfect—to deliver a personable, approachable texture in display typography without connecting strokes like cursive.
The uppercase set appears especially tall and condensed, while the lowercase introduces more bounce and variation in joins and terminals. Numerals follow the same narrow, hand-drawn logic, with simple forms and slight angle/shape variability that reinforces the informal character.