Print Emlu 9 is a very bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, event flyers, stickers, grunge, handmade, raw, edgy, playful, attention-grabbing, diy texture, informal display, gritty character, rough-edged, textured, chunky, irregular, cartoonish.
A heavy, condensed display face with chunky strokes and visibly rough, torn-looking edges. Letterforms are mostly upright with simplified geometry and small counters, creating a compact, high-impact silhouette. Stroke ends and curves show uneven, hand-cut texture and slight wobble, producing irregular contour rhythm across the alphabet. Spacing and widths vary from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an informal, drawn feel while keeping a consistent overall darkness on the line.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, headlines, album/cover art, event flyers, and sticker-style graphics where the rough contour can be appreciated at size. It can work for punchy subheads or pull quotes, but extended body text may feel heavy and visually busy due to the distressed edges and tight internal spaces.
The font projects a gritty, handmade energy—equal parts mischievous and confrontational. Its rough texture and compact weight feel loud and immediate, suggesting punky, DIY, or Halloween-adjacent attitudes without becoming illegible. The tone is expressive and informal, with a deliberately imperfect finish.
The design appears intended to mimic bold hand-rendered lettering with a distressed, cut-paper or dry-brush edge, prioritizing personality and texture over polish. It aims to deliver a strong, compact presence for attention-grabbing display typography while preserving the spontaneity of handmade marks.
In longer lines, the dense black mass and distressed edges become the dominant texture, so it reads best with generous tracking and line spacing. Numerals and uppercase carry especially strong poster presence, while lowercase maintains the same rugged texture for cohesive mixed-case settings.