Print Fanum 8 is a very bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album covers, event flyers, packaging, grungy, punk, handmade, raw, playful, distressed look, handmade feel, high impact, diy texture, rough, ragged, blotchy, chunky, uneven.
A heavily inked, hand-drawn display face with compact proportions and dense, irregular silhouettes. Strokes look brushy and blotted, with jagged edges, intermittent nicks, and small interior voids that create a distressed texture. Letterforms are mostly upright but loosely controlled, with inconsistent stroke widths and subtly shifting widths from glyph to glyph, producing a lively, imperfect rhythm. Counters are often small and pinched, and terminals tend to end abruptly, reinforcing the stamped/painted feel.
Best suited to display settings such as posters, headlines, album artwork, event flyers, and bold packaging where texture is desirable. It can work for short emphatic phrases, badges, or logotypes that want a handmade, gritty presence, but it is less appropriate for small sizes or extended reading.
The font reads as loud, scrappy, and intentionally unpolished—more DIY poster than refined typography. Its texture suggests urgency and attitude, balancing a mischievous, playful tone with a gritty edge that feels at home in alternative, street, or horror-adjacent visuals.
The design appears intended to mimic bold hand-painted or marker lettering with deliberate distress and irregularity, prioritizing personality and impact over precision. Its consistent rough texture and heavy ink coverage suggest it was drawn to deliver strong contrast and attitude in attention-grabbing applications.
The distressed contours become more prominent at larger sizes, where the rough edges and ink breaks are a key part of the character. In longer text, the dense color and tight counters can visually fill in, so generous spacing and short line lengths help preserve clarity.