Print Wamam 9 is a light, very narrow, low contrast, upright, very short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, book covers, packaging, greeting cards, quirky, playful, sketchy, folky, naive, handmade feel, casual voice, expressive display, quirky branding, monoline, irregular, condensed, bouncy, spindly.
A wiry, hand-drawn print face with monoline strokes and an intentionally uneven rhythm. Forms are compact and generally narrow, with tall ascenders and descenders that create a vertical, spindly silhouette. Stroke endings look slightly tapered or blunted, and curves are imperfect and organic, giving letters a sketched, pen-on-paper feel. Spacing and widths vary from glyph to glyph, reinforcing the casual, non-mechanical texture.
Best suited to short-to-medium settings where personality is the goal: headlines, posters, cover titling, packaging callouts, and greeting-card style messaging. It can work for brief display copy in editorial or social graphics, especially when a handcrafted, informal voice is desired.
The overall tone is quirky and lightly mischievous, with a friendly DIY character. Its irregularities read as personal and handmade rather than polished, lending an offbeat, storybook-like charm.
The design appears intended to capture the spontaneity of quick handwritten caps and simple lowercase, balancing legibility with visible human variance. Its narrow proportions and lively verticality suggest a focus on expressive display use rather than neutral, long-form reading.
In running text the tall proportions and small counters make the texture airy but a bit twitchy, with punctuation and dots appearing deliberately placed rather than optically refined. Numerals follow the same narrow, hand-rendered logic and sit comfortably alongside the letters.