Print Ekmab 7 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, event flyers, grunge, quirky, playful, rustic, handmade, distressed effect, handmade feel, poster impact, casual warmth, rough edges, inked, textured, irregular, chunky.
A heavy, inked display face with irregular contours and visibly ragged edges, as if stamped or quickly painted with a worn brush. Strokes are chunky with slightly uneven thickness and frequent nicks, creating a textured silhouette rather than smooth curves. Letterforms are mostly compact with rounded counters and soft corners, while spacing and widths vary from glyph to glyph, reinforcing a handmade rhythm. Numerals and capitals maintain the same rugged outline, giving the set a consistent distressed look.
Best suited to short, attention-grabbing text such as posters, headlines, packaging callouts, album/cover art, and event flyers where the rough edge can be appreciated. It can also work for playful branding accents or labels that benefit from a tactile, distressed impression, but is less ideal for long passages at small sizes.
The overall tone is scrappy and energetic, mixing a friendly, cartoonish warmth with a gritty, weathered finish. It feels casual and a bit mischievous—more zine or poster than polished editorial—bringing an intentionally imperfect, tactile character to headlines.
The design appears intended to emulate hand-rendered, ink-heavy lettering with a deliberately worn finish—capturing the immediacy of marker or brush marks and the imperfect bite of a stamp-like edge. The consistent ruggedness across caps, lowercase, and numerals suggests a cohesive display toolkit aimed at adding personality and texture quickly.
The texture is carried primarily on the outer contour, so shapes read strongly at larger sizes but can make fine details (small counters and joins) feel busy as size decreases. The baseline and verticals appear slightly wobbly, which adds charm but reduces the sense of strict geometric alignment.