Print Esvy 2 is a very bold, normal width, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, branding, social media, bold, energetic, playful, casual, confident, handmade feel, visual impact, expressive branding, poster energy, brushy, textured, rough-edge, rounded, slanted.
A heavy, brush-ink style with strongly slanted, compact letterforms and visibly textured stroke edges. Strokes show pressure-like modulation with blunt, slightly ragged terminals and occasional ink breakup, giving the contours a hand-made grit. Counters are tight and shapes are simplified and rounded, producing dense silhouettes and punchy word images. Spacing feels lively and uneven in a natural way, with slightly irregular widths that keep lines moving forward.
Best used for display settings where texture and punch are desirable: posters, cover art, event promos, labels, and bold brand accents. It can work for short bursts of copy in social graphics or signage, especially when set with generous line spacing to accommodate the dense forms. For longer paragraphs, its heavy color and textured edges may reduce comfort, so it’s most effective as a headline or callout face.
The overall tone is energetic and informal, with a confident, street-poster immediacy. Its brush texture and forward lean suggest motion and spontaneity, reading as friendly rather than refined. The personality lands between sporty and expressive, suited to attention-grabbing messaging.
The design appears intended to emulate quick, assertive brush lettering with a consistent, reproducible rhythm. It prioritizes impact and a handcrafted feel over precision, aiming for a lively, human-made impression that still holds together in structured typographic layouts.
Capitals are bold and compact with soft corners, while lowercase maintains a sturdy, handwritten print rhythm rather than a connected script. Numerals match the same chunky, brushed construction, keeping a consistent color in mixed text. The texture becomes a key feature at larger sizes, where the dry-brush edges and stroke variation are most apparent.