Print Eknar 8 is a very bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album covers, headlines, branding, stickers, grunge, punk, handmade, raw, playful, handmade look, high impact, expressive texture, diy attitude, brushy, ragged, blobby, chunky, textured.
A chunky, brush-drawn display face with irregular contours and a wet-ink texture. Strokes are heavy and somewhat compressed, with uneven terminals, occasional tapering, and visibly rough edges that create a distressed silhouette. Letterforms are simplified and slightly inconsistent in width and proportion, producing a lively, handmade rhythm; counters are small and sometimes partially closed, and curves tend to look lumpy rather than geometric. The lowercase is compact with short ascenders and a small x-height feel relative to the capitals, while numerals and punctuation carry the same bold, imperfect stamp-like presence.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, event flyers, album or playlist covers, packaging accents, and logo-like wordmarks where texture and attitude are desired. It can also work for quotes, titles, and social graphics that benefit from a rough, hand-painted look, but is less appropriate for long passages or small UI sizes due to its dense strokes and tight counters.
The overall tone is gritty and energetic, with a DIY attitude that reads as rebellious and informal. Its rough brushiness suggests spontaneity and motion, balancing a playful cartoon edge with a slightly menacing, horror-adjacent bite.
This font appears designed to mimic bold marker or brush lettering with intentionally imperfect edges, prioritizing personality and texture over uniformity. The goal seems to be a strong, immediate visual hit—something that feels hand-made, gritty, and expressive in display settings.
At larger sizes the textured outlines and uneven stroke edges become a defining feature, while at smaller sizes the tight counters and heavy mass can reduce clarity. Word shapes have a strong, bouncy cadence thanks to irregular widths and inconsistent stroke modulation, which helps it feel hand-made rather than mechanically repeated.