Print Nykam 3 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, book covers, horror, album art, expressive, handmade, dramatic, moody, rustic, handmade look, raw texture, dramatic impact, brush lettering, brushy, textured, angular, spiky, organic.
This typeface has a hand-drawn, brush-pen character with visibly uneven stroke edges and occasional bristle-like breaks. Letterforms lean forward with a lively, variable rhythm: some strokes swell into wedge-like terminals while others taper to fine points, creating a rough, energetic texture across a line. Curves are slightly irregular and often resolve in sharp hooks or flicks, and spacing feels intentionally loose and natural rather than mechanically uniform.
Best suited to short display settings where texture and gesture are the message—posters, titles, cover art, packaging, and editorial pull quotes. It can work well over imagery or dark themes where the rough edges add atmosphere, but the busy texture may reduce clarity in small sizes or long passages.
The overall tone is expressive and slightly aggressive, with a scratchy brush texture that suggests urgency and rawness. It reads as informal and human, leaning toward dramatic, mysterious, or gritty atmospheres rather than friendly softness.
The design appears intended to emulate quick, confident brush lettering with intentional imperfections, capturing the look of ink drag and dry-brush breakup. It prioritizes personality and atmosphere over smooth regularity, aiming for impactful, hand-rendered display typography.
Uppercase shapes carry the most theatrical gestures (notably in the diagonals and hooked terminals), while lowercase remains simpler but still textured and slightly inconsistent in a way that reinforces the handmade feel. Numerals follow the same brush logic with uneven weight distribution and pointed entries/exits.