Print Venif 5 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, greeting cards, packaging, posters, headlines, playful, whimsical, handmade, quirky, friendly, handmade feel, friendly tone, compact display, playful voice, monoline feel, tapered terminals, rounded forms, tall ascenders, airy spacing.
A tall, condensed handwritten print with lively, slightly irregular strokes and a pronounced mix of thick downstrokes and hairline-like curves. Letterforms are upright with narrow proportions, long ascenders/descenders, and generally rounded bowls that keep the texture open despite the tight width. Terminals often taper or curl gently, and strokes show subtle wobble and variation that reads as drawn rather than mechanically constructed. Capitals are clean and slender, while lowercase forms introduce more personality through looped descenders and occasional asymmetric joins and counters.
Best suited for short to medium bursts of text where a friendly handmade voice is desired—invites, cards, labels, boutique packaging, and poster headlines. It can also work for pull quotes or children’s/arts-and-crafts themed materials, where its narrow footprint helps fit more characters while retaining a playful texture.
The font conveys a light, whimsical tone—casual and personable, like neat marker or pen lettering with a touch of storybook charm. Its narrow, high-contrast rhythm feels energetic and slightly quirky, giving text an expressive, handcrafted presence without becoming messy or chaotic.
The design appears intended to mimic tidy, informal hand-printing with a deliberately slender silhouette and expressive stroke modulation. It aims for charm and individuality through subtle inconsistency, balancing legibility with a distinctly drawn character for display-oriented use.
In running text the condensed width creates a vertical, rhythmic cadence, and the contrast can make thin curves feel delicate at smaller sizes. The ampersand is especially expressive and curvy, and numerals follow the same tall, narrow, handwritten logic, with a notably airy, looped “8”.