Print Usduf 8 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, very short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, comics, album art, quirky, casual, playful, handmade, offbeat, handmade flavor, informal voice, expressive display, quirky texture, tall, condensed, spiky, wiry, uneven.
A tall, wiry handwritten print with narrow proportions and lively, uneven stroke behavior. Letterforms are built from quick, slightly jittery strokes with occasional sharp terminals and subtle weight wobble, giving a sketched, marker-or-pen feel rather than a polished outline. Spacing and widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, with compact counters and long verticals; round letters (like O) read as irregular ovals. The lowercase is small relative to the capitals, and ascenders/descenders feel prominent, contributing to an airy baseline rhythm despite the condensed stance.
Works best in short-to-medium display settings where a handmade tone is desired: posters, headlines, packaging callouts, comics-style captions, and album or event artwork. It can also add personality to quotes or section headers, especially when set with generous tracking and leading to let the tall forms breathe.
The overall tone is informal and characterful—more zine-like and eccentric than neat or friendly. Its irregularities and tall gestures suggest a spontaneous, human voice that feels a bit mischievous and expressive, suited to content that benefits from personality over refinement.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of quick hand lettering—tall, narrow, and slightly unruly—while remaining legible as printed characters. Its inconsistent stroke energy and variable glyph widths seem deliberate, prioritizing expressiveness and a human cadence over typographic uniformity.
In text, the narrow build and small lowercase increase the sense of verticality, while the variable letter widths create a bouncy cadence across words. The numerals follow the same hand-drawn logic, keeping the set visually cohesive for casual display use.