Print Dokay 9 is a very light, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, packaging, headlines, posters, greeting cards, airy, delicate, whimsical, elegant, friendly, hand-lettered feel, delicate display, modern charm, personal tone, monoline, spindly, tall, rounded, loopy.
A tall, spindly handwritten print with extremely thin, monoline strokes and a gently irregular rhythm. Letterforms are narrow and vertically oriented, with rounded bowls and frequent soft hooks and looped terminals, giving many stems a lightly calligraphic, drawn-on-paper feel. Uppercase shapes stay simple and open, while lowercase adds more personality through elongated ascenders/descenders and occasional curls (notably in forms like g, j, y, and q). Numerals follow the same lightweight, narrow construction with smooth curves and minimal detailing.
Well-suited to invitations, greeting cards, and light editorial or poster headlines where a hand-drawn, elegant tone is desirable. It can also work for boutique packaging and labels when set at larger sizes to preserve the thin stroke detail.
The overall tone is airy and delicate, suggesting a quiet, whimsical sophistication rather than bold informality. Its thin lines and tall proportions feel refined and slightly playful, like neat hand lettering intended to be personable without becoming messy.
The design appears intended to capture a tidy, modern handwritten print: narrow, high-reaching proportions paired with subtle terminal curls to add charm and individuality. The emphasis is on a light, refined presence for display-oriented typography rather than dense text settings.
Because the strokes are so fine and the counters relatively small, the design reads best when given generous size and spacing. The texture becomes more expressive in mixed-case settings, where the long extenders create a distinctive vertical cadence.