Print Edbup 3 is a bold, narrow, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, packaging, album art, grunge, handmade, vintage, worn, edgy, add texture, evoke printwear, create impact, signal diy, distressed, rough, ragged, inked, textured.
A condensed, heavy display face with a deliberately distressed finish. Strokes are mostly monoline and upright, with squared-off terminals that break into irregular nicks and bite marks, creating a rough printed texture. Curves are simplified and slightly pinched, counters stay fairly open for the weight, and the overall rhythm feels tight and vertical. The distressing appears consistently across caps, lowercase, and figures, giving the set a cohesive worn surface rather than random damage.
Best suited to display applications where texture is an asset: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, and merch graphics. It can also work for event promos or album/film titles that want a worn, tactile print look; for longer passages it will be more effective in short, punchy blocks or callouts.
The tone is gritty and handmade, like ink stamped on coarse paper or a poster that’s been weathered and reprinted. It conveys a rugged, slightly aggressive energy that reads as vintage-industrial and DIY rather than polished or refined.
The design appears intended to mimic hand-printed or stamped letterforms with intentional erosion at edges and joins, combining condensed billboard-like proportions with a gritty surface treatment for instant character.
The condensed proportions and strong verticals produce high impact in short strings, while the edge erosion becomes more noticeable as size increases. Numerals and capitals carry the most poster-like presence; lowercase maintains the same roughness so mixed-case settings still feel unified.