Calligraphic Bido 13 is a very bold, wide, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, kids, headlines, logos, playful, cartoon, chunky, bouncy, friendly, attention, warmth, humor, informality, playfulness, soft corners, irregular, hand-drawn, bulbous, rollicking.
A heavy, rounded display face with hand-drawn irregularity and a lively, uneven rhythm. Strokes stay broadly consistent in weight, with soft, blunted terminals and gently inflated bowls that create a chunky silhouette. Forms lean on simple geometry but are intentionally wobbly: counters shift slightly off-center, curves aren’t perfectly smooth, and joins vary enough to read as drawn rather than constructed. The lowercase shows a tall, dominant x-height with compact ascenders and short, sturdy descenders, while the caps are broad and blocky with slightly inconsistent widths that enhance the informal texture.
Best suited to short, bold statements such as posters, headlines, playful branding, packaging, and logo lockups where a friendly, cartoon-like presence is desired. It can also work for children’s materials and event graphics, especially when set with generous spacing to keep shapes from crowding.
The overall tone is cheerful and comedic, suggesting a lighthearted, kid-friendly voice. Its bouncy contours and uneven hand-made cadence feel casual and expressive, closer to a playful poster marker than a strict typographic system.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with an approachable, hand-drawn personality—combining chunky, rounded forms with controlled inconsistency to feel energetic and informal while remaining highly legible at display sizes.
In text settings the dense color and rounded shapes hold together strongly, but the deliberate irregularities become more noticeable at larger sizes where individual quirks in bowls, diagonals, and crossbars read as characterful. Numerals follow the same inflated, friendly construction and match the caps’ sturdy presence.