Print Ombam 12 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: logos, posters, headlines, invitations, packaging, casual, lively, personal, playful, expressive, handwritten feel, casual display, personal voice, brush energy, brushlike, looping, tapered, gestural, slanted.
A brisk, hand-rendered script with a consistent rightward slant and brisk, brush-pen stroke behavior. Strokes show subtle tapering at terminals and mild pressure changes that create a lively rhythm without becoming highly calligraphic. Letterforms are compact and tall with tight interior counters and a notably short lowercase x-height relative to ascenders, giving the text a springy, handwritten profile. Uppercase characters are more flamboyant and looped, while lowercase forms stay simplified and mostly unconnected, keeping word shapes airy and quick.
This font works best for short-to-medium display settings where a personal, expressive voice is desired—logos, posters, social graphics, invitations, and packaging callouts. It can also serve as a secondary accent in editorial layouts, but its compact proportions and handwritten irregularity make it less suited to long, small-size body text.
The overall tone is informal and personable, like quick notes made with a felt-tip or brush pen. Its energetic slant and occasional loops add a friendly, slightly cheeky flair that reads as human and spontaneous rather than polished or formal.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of fast handwriting while retaining enough consistency to function as a repeatable typeface. It aims for a brush-pen feel—expressive capitals, simplified lowercase, and tapered terminals—balancing legibility with character.
Spacing is somewhat irregular in a natural, handwritten way, and the mix of looped capitals with simpler lowercase creates strong emphasis at word starts. Numerals follow the same gestural logic, with open, rounded forms and quick, tapered finishing strokes.