Print Dirad 6 is a light, very narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, greeting cards, packaging, branding, whimsical, airy, quirky, handmade, playful, handmade charm, playful display, pen-lettered feel, informal elegance, spidery, bouncy, calligraphic, delicate, expressive.
A delicate, hand-drawn print style with thin hairlines and occasional heavier downstrokes, creating a noticeably calligraphic contrast. Letterforms are tall and narrow with long ascenders and descenders, and the lowercase shows a relatively small x-height compared to the capitals. Strokes taper into sharp terminals, with slight wobble and irregularities that keep the rhythm organic rather than geometric. Spacing and widths vary from glyph to glyph, producing a lively, uneven texture in words, while counters stay open enough to remain readable at display sizes.
Best suited for headlines and short passages where its character can be appreciated—such as posters, greeting cards, playful branding, and boutique packaging. It can also work for pull quotes or chapter titles, but the thin strokes and lively irregularity make it less ideal for dense, small-size body text.
The overall tone feels whimsical and slightly eccentric, like quick ink lettering for a personal note or storybook heading. Its spindly elegance and bouncy proportions convey lightness and charm more than seriousness or authority.
The design appears intended to capture the feel of quick, expressive pen lettering in an unconnected print style, balancing legibility with an intentionally quirky, handcrafted texture. The narrow, tall proportions and high-contrast stroke behavior emphasize personality and elegance for display-driven typography.
Capitals tend to be more graphic and gesture-driven, while the lowercase mixes simple printed forms with more cursive-like details (notably in letters such as a, g, y, and j). Numerals match the same airy construction and tapered stroke endings, keeping the set visually cohesive despite the intentionally uneven, handmade cadence.