Print Edrel 3 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, fantasy headers, poster design, album art, halloween promos, gothic, spooky, antique, occult, storybook, distressed look, gothic mood, handmade texture, vintage ephemera, ragged, inked, jagged, textured, blackletter-leaning.
This face uses compact, upright letterforms with uneven, hand-cut edges and a subtly distressed ink texture. Strokes show medium contrast with frequent tapering and small hooked terminals, giving many characters a chiseled or brush-dragged finish. Curves are slightly lumpy and counters vary in openness, creating an intentionally irregular rhythm while maintaining consistent overall cap height and baseline behavior. Capitals often carry angular, blackletter-adjacent silhouettes, while lowercase stays narrow and compact with a small, dark x-height and tight internal spacing.
Best suited to display settings such as horror or fantasy titles, posters, packaging accents, and editorial headers where a distressed gothic flavor is desired. It can work for short passages or pull quotes when set with generous tracking and line spacing to prevent the dense texture from clumping.
The overall tone feels gothic and arcane, evoking old manuscripts, horror titles, and folklore ephemera. The distressed edges and pointed terminals add tension and drama, reading as eerie and theatrical rather than casual or playful.
The design appears intended to mimic hand-rendered, aged lettering with blackletter-inspired structure and a deliberately weathered finish. Its proportions and consistent upright stance suggest a display font built for dramatic tone-setting rather than neutral, continuous reading.
In text, the texture and narrow proportions create a dense, high-contrast color on the line, with punctuation and numerals matching the same roughened, ink-worn treatment. The strongest visual impact appears at display sizes where the ragged edges and hooked details remain distinct.