Print Ebreb 5 is a light, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, book covers, packaging, greeting cards, quirky, hand-drawn, whimsical, casual, lively, handmade feel, playful tone, informal voice, expressive texture, light texture, wiry, sketchy, uneven, nervy, airy.
A wiry, hand-drawn print style with tall, slender proportions and a noticeably right-leaning slant. Strokes look pen-like with slight modulation and frequent tapering at terminals, producing an airy, lightweight texture. Curves are loosely drawn and sometimes asymmetrical, and the overall rhythm is intentionally irregular with small variations in width and alignment. Uppercase forms are narrow and upright in structure while still showing gestural wobble; lowercase is compact with a relatively small x-height and long ascenders/descenders that give lines a vertical, spidery feel.
Best suited to short-to-medium text where personality is the priority: display headlines, posters, book or album covers, packaging accents, invitations, and greeting cards. It can also work for pull quotes or section headers in editorial layouts when paired with a calmer text face to balance its animated rhythm.
The tone is informal and expressive, with a quirky, lightly eccentric personality that feels like quick handwriting cleaned up into a readable print. Its unevenness adds charm and motion, suggesting spontaneity, humor, and a slightly offbeat, indie sensibility rather than strict polish.
Likely designed to capture the immediacy of handwritten lettering while maintaining consistent enough forms for set text. The narrow, slanted construction and airy stroke weight aim to keep compositions light and energetic, emphasizing character and movement over geometric precision.
Distinctive, idiosyncratic details—like looped bowls, occasional hooked or flared terminals, and a few deliberately roughened joins—create a sketchbook character in both the alphabet grid and the text sample. Numerals follow the same narrow, hand-rendered logic and keep an open, uncluttered presence, supporting the font’s light overall color.