Print Ekmak 3 is a very bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, comics, horror-lite branding, grunge, handmade, playful, rough, bold, handmade texture, display impact, informal voice, gritty emphasis, ragged, blotty, inked, organic, irregular.
A heavy, hand-rendered print face with irregular, ragged contours and slightly blobby terminals that suggest a brush or marker under uneven pressure. Strokes are chunky and compact, with mild modulation created more by edge texture and fill variation than by consistent calligraphic logic. Letterforms keep an upright stance and simple, blocky construction, while the outlines wobble and notch in ways that create a lively, distressed silhouette. Counters are often small and uneven, and widths vary from glyph to glyph, giving lines of text a bouncy, handmade rhythm.
Best suited to posters, headlines, packaging accents, and short editorial callouts where a rough, handmade voice is desirable. It can work well for comic-style titling, zines, event promos, and spooky-but-playful themes, especially when set with generous spacing and at larger sizes to let the edge texture read clearly.
The overall tone is gritty and energetic, combining a DIY feel with a cartoonish boldness. Its rough edges and slightly smeared shapes read as informal and expressive, lending an offbeat, mischievous character rather than polished refinement.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of hand-drawn lettering while maintaining the clarity of a print alphabet. Its controlled structure paired with deliberately imperfect edges suggests a goal of adding attitude and texture to display typography without requiring illustration.
The texture is built into the outlines rather than added as a separate overlay, so the distressed effect remains legible at display sizes while becoming more atmospheric as sizes increase. Numerals and capitals share the same chunky, irregular treatment, helping headings and short bursts of copy feel cohesive and emphatic.