Wacky Lagel 3 is a bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, comics, kids media, playful, quirky, handmade, cartoony, whimsical, handmade feel, humor, attention-grabbing, casual display, expressive texture, chunky, wonky, irregular, rounded, soft corners.
A chunky, irregular display face with hand-cut, slightly warped contours and gently rounded corners. Strokes show noticeable wobble and subtle flare, producing a lively, uneven rhythm across the alphabet while staying largely upright. Counters are compact and often off-center, with a mix of squarish and rounded internal shapes; terminals feel blunted rather than crisp. The overall color is dense and dark, with variable glyph widths and a slightly bouncing baseline feel when set in text.
Best used at display sizes for posters, headlines, and short bursts of text where personality matters more than neutrality. It can work well for playful packaging, event promos, comics-style captions, and children’s or novelty-themed graphics, especially when paired with a calmer body typeface.
The tone is playful and mischievous, with a DIY, cut-paper energy that reads as intentionally imperfect. Its odd proportions and wavy edges give it a comedic, offbeat personality suited to attention-grabbing, lighthearted messaging.
The design appears intended to mimic a handmade, cut-out or quickly brushed lettering look while remaining a usable alphabet. Its controlled irregularity suggests a deliberate effort to create humor and motion through uneven edges, varied widths, and quirky internal shapes.
Lowercase forms lean toward simplified, single-storey constructions and compact apertures, which boosts character but can reduce clarity at small sizes. Numerals and capitals share the same carved, lopsided logic, keeping the set cohesive even as individual shapes vary.