Print Darew 12 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, comics, album art, casual, sketchy, quirky, youthful, handmade, handmade feel, casual voice, expressive display, quick lettering, brushy, angular, spiky, lively, irregular.
A lively handwritten print with brush-like strokes and quick, angular turns. Letterforms show noticeable irregularity in stroke endings—often tapering to points or forming small hooks—creating a slightly spiky silhouette. Curves are loosely drawn and occasionally flattened, while verticals and diagonals vary in thickness and length, giving an uneven baseline and an organic rhythm. Capitals are tall and expressive, lowercase is compact with simple, open counters, and numerals are similarly informal with variable widths and simplified construction.
Best suited to short, attention-grabbing text where personality matters more than typographic neutrality—posters, headlines, packaging callouts, comic-style captions, and display lines in branding or album artwork. It can also work for quotes or titles when set with generous tracking and comfortable line spacing to keep the lively texture from feeling crowded.
The overall tone is informal and energetic, like fast marker lettering on a poster or notebook page. Its imperfect, human rhythm reads as playful and spontaneous rather than polished or formal, with a slightly edgy, scribbled character.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of hand-drawn marker lettering in a consistent, usable font: expressive shapes, quick strokes, and slight irregularities that preserve a human, sketchbook feel while remaining readable in display settings.
Spacing appears intentionally inconsistent, with some glyphs feeling narrow and others more open, which contributes to the hand-rendered cadence. Several letters use simplified, single-stroke logic (notably in the lowercase and digits), and many terminals end in sharp flicks that add motion across lines of text.