Print Efpa 9 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, packaging, posters, social media, greeting cards, casual, friendly, lively, personal, playful, hand-lettering, informality, approachability, expressiveness, compactness, brushy, tapered, loopy, rounded, airy.
A lively handwritten print with a slight rightward slant and a brisk, brush-pen rhythm. Strokes show gentle tapering and occasional swelling, with rounded terminals and softly irregular contours that keep the texture human and spontaneous. Proportions are condensed overall, with tall ascenders/descenders and compact lowercase bodies, and spacing that stays open enough to avoid heavy clumping despite the narrow forms. Capitals are simple and upright-leaning with minimal ornament, while lowercase forms introduce more loops and hooks for a more conversational flow.
Best suited for short to medium-length text where a casual, hand-lettered presence is desired—headlines, quotes, packaging callouts, posters, invitations, and social graphics. It can also work for light subheads or captions when set with comfortable tracking and ample line spacing.
The tone is informal and personable, like quick notes made with a felt-tip or brush marker. Its energetic slant and springy curves give it a cheerful, slightly quirky character that feels approachable rather than polished or formal.
The design appears intended to mimic quick, confident hand lettering in an unconnected print style, balancing legibility with an expressive brush-like stroke. Its condensed, slightly slanted forms suggest an emphasis on fitting lively copy into tight spaces while maintaining an upbeat, personal feel.
The numeral set follows the same hand-drawn logic, with single-stroke simplicity and rounded turns. Overall consistency is good, but small variations in stroke endings and curvature are preserved, which contributes to the organic texture in continuous text.