Wacky Hiked 2 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, kids media, comics, playful, quirky, cartoonish, casual, energetic, personality, humor, display impact, handmade feel, informality, hand-drawn, brushy, rounded, bouncy, chunky.
A heavy, slanted display face with a hand-drawn, brush-like construction and noticeably irregular rhythm. Strokes are thick and rounded with tapered endings and occasional wedge-like terminals, creating a cut-paper/marker feel rather than rigid geometry. Curves are generously inflated and counters are often off-center or asymmetrical, giving letters a lively, bouncing baseline and variable internal spacing. The overall texture is bold and compact in mass, but with inconsistent widths and expressive distortions that emphasize personality over uniformity.
Best suited to short, attention-grabbing applications such as posters, cover art, playful branding, packaging, and headline treatments where its bold color and quirky motion can read as intentional character. It can also work for kids-focused materials and comic-style captions, particularly when set at display sizes where the irregularities remain legible.
The font conveys a goofy, upbeat tone—friendly and mischievous, with a comic, DIY sensibility. Its exaggerated shapes and jaunty slant feel informal and animated, suggesting humor and lighthearted emphasis rather than seriousness or restraint.
The design appears intended to mimic an expressive, hand-painted or marker-lettered look with a deliberately wobbly, animated silhouette. Its primary goal seems to be instant personality and humor—creating a distinctive, one-off voice for display typography rather than neutral, continuous reading.
Letterforms favor soft corners and swooping joins, and the numerals follow the same playful, hand-rendered logic with uneven curves and pronounced stroke swell. In text settings the dense black color creates strong impact, while the irregular spacing and energetic forms become a defining part of the voice, especially at larger sizes.