Print Osdav 8 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headers, packaging, invitations, social ads, casual, sketchy, expressive, indie, human, handmade tone, quick lettering, expressive display, personal voice, brushy, spiky, wiry, bouncy, irregular.
A wiry, hand-drawn print with a pronounced rightward slant and brush-like stroke behavior. Letterforms are tall and narrow with compact counters, a very small x-height, and lively ascenders/descenders that create a vertical, slightly jittery rhythm. Strokes show visible pressure changes and tapered terminals, with occasional hooked entries and sharp flicks on curves. Spacing and widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an organic, improvised texture rather than a strictly uniform system.
Best suited to short display settings such as posters, headlines, quotes, packaging callouts, and social graphics where a handmade voice is desirable. It can also work for invitations or DIY-style branding accents, especially when paired with a calmer text face for longer reading.
The overall tone feels informal and personal—like quick marker lettering in a notebook or on packaging mockups. Its spiky, energetic curves and uneven cadence give it an expressive, slightly edgy character while still reading as friendly and approachable.
The design appears intended to capture fast, natural handwriting in an unconnected print style, emphasizing gesture and individuality over strict consistency. Its narrow, slanted silhouettes and brush-tapered terminals suggest a goal of delivering an expressive, human feel for attention-grabbing display text.
Uppercase letters are especially tall and narrow, and the numerals follow the same hand-rendered logic with simple, open shapes. The texture is strongest in longer lines of text, where the uneven stroke endings and variable widths create a lively, handwritten color.