Outline Jidu 12 is a light, normal width, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, kids, packaging, signage, playful, hand-drawn, casual, friendly, youthful, playful display, hand-drawn look, friendly branding, outline styling, rounded, outlined, bouncy, irregular, cartoonish.
A rounded outline face with monoline contour strokes and open counters throughout. Letterforms lean on simple geometric skeletons, but the contours wobble subtly, creating a hand-drawn, bouncy rhythm and slightly irregular curves and joins. Corners are generally softened, terminals feel blunt, and spacing reads airy due to the hollow construction; overall proportions are straightforward with clear, easy-to-parse shapes in both cases and numerals.
Best suited to short display settings such as headlines, posters, product packaging, event titles, and playful signage where the outlined construction can read clearly. It can also work for kids-oriented materials and casual branding, especially when paired with solid fills, bold colors, or simple graphic elements rather than long text passages.
The font conveys an upbeat, informal tone—more sketchbook and cartoon than corporate. Its buoyant outlines and gentle irregularities give it a personable, approachable voice that feels playful and lightly whimsical.
The design appears intended to offer a cheerful outline display option that mimics hand-drawn lettering while staying legible and orderly across the alphabet and numerals. Its simplified forms and rounded contouring prioritize friendliness and visual charm over typographic severity.
The outline-only construction makes the design highly dependent on background and stroke color for clarity, and it visually grows more decorative as sizes increase. Rounded forms like O/Q/0 and the lowercase set reinforce a friendly, classroom-poster character, while the slightly uneven contouring keeps it from feeling rigidly geometric.