Print Emsi 4 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, book covers, headlines, children’s media, playful, rustic, handmade, friendly, quirky, handmade warmth, casual display, signage feel, playful tone, brushy, textured, chunky, rounded, irregular.
A chunky, hand-drawn print face with brush-like stroke edges and visibly uneven contours. Letterforms are mostly upright with slightly varying widths and a lively baseline rhythm. Strokes are heavy and rounded, with occasional flattened terminals and small ink-like bulges that create a textured silhouette. Counters are generally open and simple, and spacing feels organically inconsistent in a way that reinforces the handmade look.
Best suited to short to medium display text where its textured, hand-rendered shapes can be appreciated—posters, packaging, book covers, and playful branding. It also works for titles, pull quotes, and headers in editorial or craft-themed materials, while extended body copy may feel heavy and visually busy.
The overall tone is casual and approachable, with a playful, slightly rustic character. Its imperfect, painted texture adds warmth and personality, suggesting an informal, crafty voice rather than a polished corporate feel.
The design appears intended to mimic hand-painted or marker-lettered signage, prioritizing character and immediacy over geometric precision. Its consistent roughness and rounded heft suggest a font made to add human warmth and an informal, approachable presence to display typography.
Uppercase and lowercase share a consistent marker/brush texture, keeping mixed-case settings cohesive. Numerals follow the same hand-rendered logic, with simplified shapes and small irregularities that read as intentional rather than accidental. The texture is strong enough to become a visual feature at display sizes and can look dense in longer passages.