Print Wadon 3 is a regular weight, very narrow, low contrast, upright, very short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, book covers, greeting cards, quirky, whimsical, casual, chatty, rustic, hand-drawn feel, casual display, personal tone, playful branding, sketchy, uneven, tall, spindly, rounded.
This is a hand-drawn, monoline print style with tall, slender proportions and lightly irregular stroke edges. Letterforms are built from simple, rounded shapes with occasional angular joins, producing an uneven baseline and varied cap heights that feel intentionally imperfect. Counters are generally open and airy, and spacing is loose, with noticeable variability in character widths and sidebearings. Ascenders and descenders are long and narrow, and terminals often finish with slightly blunted, marker-like ends rather than crisp geometric cuts.
It works best for short to medium-length text where personality is more important than typographic neutrality—titles, captions, pull quotes, and display lines. It’s well suited to handmade branding applications such as packaging, café menus, craft labels, and children’s or whimsical editorial covers, where the narrow, tall silhouette can add charm without heavy visual weight.
The overall tone is informal and playful, with a quirky, storybook character that feels personal and human rather than polished. Its skinny, bouncy rhythm reads as friendly and a little eccentric, evoking handwritten notes, crafts, and casual signage.
The design appears intended to capture the look of quickly drawn, unconnected hand lettering—clean enough to read, but with enough irregularity to preserve a genuine handwritten feel. Its condensed, vertical emphasis suggests a goal of fitting expressive display text into tight horizontal spaces while keeping a light, approachable texture.
In running text, the tall capitals and long extenders create a distinctive vertical cadence, while the irregularity in stroke and spacing adds texture. Numerals and punctuation match the same hand-drawn logic, staying simple and legible while retaining the wobbly, drawn-in-ink feel.