Print Gydum 3 is a very bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, packaging, album covers, quirky, playful, handmade, retro, spooky, attention, personality, handmade feel, compact impact, condensed, chunky, rounded corners, inked, irregular.
A condensed, heavy display face with hand-drawn, inked forms and subtly uneven contours. Strokes are chunky with soft, rounded corners and occasional angular notches, creating a carved or stamped feel. Counters tend to be small and sometimes slit-like, while terminals vary between blunt and slightly tapered, adding lively texture. Overall spacing and widths shift from glyph to glyph, producing a bouncy rhythm that reads consistently but never looks mechanical.
Best suited to short display settings where its condensed weight can pack impact into tight spaces—posters, headlines, logotypes, and punchy packaging. It can also work for entertainment or seasonal graphics where a playful, slightly dark flavor is desired, but it’s less appropriate for long text or small UI sizes.
The letterforms convey an offbeat, mischievous tone—part retro poster, part handmade sign. Its dense silhouettes and quirky details give it a slightly eerie edge while staying approachable and fun.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, compact display voice with unmistakable handmade character. By mixing consistent overall structure with irregular edges and idiosyncratic cuts, it aims for high visual impact and memorable personality rather than typographic neutrality.
Distinctive cut-ins and droplet-like terminals appear in several characters, and the numerals follow the same compressed, blocky logic for a cohesive set. The texture becomes a feature at larger sizes, where the irregularities read as intentional personality rather than noise.